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Angels and Gods

01.28.15 Posted in today's words by

Bobbie Troy’s most recent poem to appear here was What We Are (December 2014). Angels and Gods By Bobbie Troy people seek angels and gods when life’s problems seem insurmountable when bodies and minds become frail when hope fails and depression sets in but most of all when the tangible is not enough people seek […]


Lost and Found

01.27.15 Posted in today's words by

Anita Haas is a Canadian teacher and writer living in Madrid, Spain. Her published work includes 3 books on film, a novella, and articles, poems, and stories in English and Spanish in journals including Poetry Quarterly, Red Dashboard Dime Novels, and Parody Magazine. Lost and Found By Anita Haas I grieve the stillness …………of the mute […]


Hungry Guy

01.26.15 Posted in today's words by

Marc Carver’s most recent poem to appear here was The Open Door (July 2014). Hungry Guy By Marc Carver All my life I thought I was different not special but different in a way that most people could see now they look through me as if I was not there they know I am but […]


Reading Is a Bad Influence

01.25.15 Posted in today's words by

KC Bosch’s most recent poem to appear here was Holding Tank 911 (July 2014). Reading Is a Bad Influence By KC Bosch In 1963 Geoff Workman spent 105 days living in a cave below the English peat. Free from the sun and a clock he got to set his own rhythm, nights and days determined […]


There Are No Atheists in Infidelity

01.24.15 Posted in Contributor Series 9 by

Nicole Yurcaba’s most recent poem to appear here was Simulacrum (July 2014). There Are No Atheists in Infidelity By Nicole Yurcaba We are the infidels crossing no man’s land molding Eastern Europe to Scandinavian skin; absent without leave, crossing borders, sneaking beneath limp barbed wire that catches flesh-bits in its wolfish teeth. Sweated, shamed, exhausted, […]


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