Sometimes I feel like I’m drifting: in outer space, through life. I can’t keep up with myself because I am more lost than wanderer. Oh, …
Friend by Melissa Sussens
Do you know how often I still think of you? How many hours I’ve lost scrolling through the shrine of your Instagram; how I am …
Nightlight by Dani Leshgold
i drench myself in moonlight and pray for an extra piece. i find balance in a stranger, in a scream, maybe one day in silence. …
A Secret Garden by Marissa J. Gates
While my friends, all beautiful with diamond promises on their left hands, live out overflowing love and beginnings, I’m here in this empty, secret, overgrowth …
Maybe by Karen Manabat
Maybe in another life we were there Waking to a new sunshine Looking up at a different set of stars Just you and me Maybe …
A poem for Melissa by Ronda Redmond
Pink and blue. Electric blue, like your running shoes. I say your feet are smaller than mine and you smile. It is tinsel. Daisies. You …
Woman by Jade Marzolf
Count your calories and record what you eat every day; you should be eating 6 servings of fruit and vegetables for optimal health; you should …
Insufficient by Arlene Antoinette
I awake in tears, crying for the things I want to do for you. Crying for those things I cannot do for you. My flaws …
Healing a Decaying Body by Nazanin Soghrati
The year cancer floods my grandfather’s lungs I unspool myself on the dinner table and let my body decay in the open air I wring …