Daniel Von der Embse

How were we to know? by Daniel Von der Embse

A small, scented patch of paper is all that remains of the time we lived together above the all-night barbershop on Claremont Ave. You made me ox-tail soup and took care of [...]

April 1, 2015

Four Poems by Justin Hyde

December 1, 2014

after your best friend’s wedding we stood naked in front of the hotel mirror arms behind each other’s backs marveling at [...]
Six Poems by Josh Jordan

December 29, 2016

The Soul Undimmed In quietude you whisper upon the wind, reminiscing upon an afflicted past Outwardly your soul appears [...]
Crying in Cars with Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy

March 9, 2017

Footsteps follow me in the parking lot, looking back I see only dead leaves turning in the breeze —it must be the ghosts. [...]
Like Breath, Like Air by Mari Pack

March 3, 2017

Oh, for fuck’s sake when I die, don’t tell them I was full of life say instead, that I was air and that I swept [...]
Overpass by Alison Hicks

September 2, 2016

Two days after my mother died I lay on the mat in the storefront studio down the street from the tracks. My mother appeared [...]
The Heart Is an Organ on Fire by Sheldon Lee Compton

November 15, 2018

Tracy had sensed Bruce was different but had been too interested in his company to see any sign of it early on. The church [...]
Milk Crates by Melanie Tague

April 1, 2014

I watched you once sitting on the bench by the courthouse, staring at the ground and I whispered that you were missing the [...]
The Huldufolk by Liz Kay

May 17, 2017

You had spent most of your years gazing at the moon like a thick haired child on a Christmas advert but the orange plane to [...]
Pitiful by Jeffrey Zable

May 29, 2016

Driving home in a cold, pouring rain I spot this guy limping along in the street completely barefoot, wearing only a t-shirt [...]
We are home here and other poems by Cassandra Justine Grisdale

May 6, 2017

I watch as you stretch in your sleep, muscles flexing under skin whose scars I kissed moments earlier. You sigh deeply and I [...]
Snippet from Soft Opening by Alexandra Naughton

October 11, 2017

Playing with this power because I can and because it’s been done to me and it’s something I’ve always had and never [...]
Example 52 by JD DeHart

October 1, 2014

That lack of response to my chance Good Morning, the stare when I wave hello, yet another example of why I dislike most [...]