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

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 [...]
Killing My Grandmother’s Grandaughter and other poems by Kanika Lawton

January 25, 2017

I think my body will always be an euphemism for apology, always too tall or too short or too wide or too thin. My hips [...]
Leah’s Other Self by Daniel Thompson

February 1, 2014

The first shouts come from her little sister. “Leah, Leah, Leah.” She hears her sister but convinces herself another [...]
I am Chronos, The Bringer of Time by Adam Lock

October 23, 2017

Wait. Don’t do that yet. Let me talk to you. My name is Chronos, The Bringer Of Time. Some title huh? But don’t let it [...]
Groceries and other poems by WK Lawrence

July 20, 2017

Your passing wind captures me Gently mistakes me for another cold heart Like the ones you find in the frozen foods section [...]
Flesh and Blood by Stuart Snelson

August 1, 2014

They would only be staying one night, of that he had been assured. He didn’t begrudge them their visit, at such short [...]
April Sleeps in Velvet by Marie Abate

June 1, 2014

April has a headache. She doesn’t want to take her pills. She remembers last night, the tavern on the other side of town [...]
Poetry Quintet by Jessica Mehta

December 28, 2016

Ma’am, I Am Tonight Rare are the great moments recognized in the making. That night in Nashville, the rooftop, the five of [...]
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 [...]
FOUR WAY INDEPENDENCE and other poems by Mark Belair

October 23, 2017

FOUR-WAY INDEPENDENCE Try this at home: Sit in a chair and count out loud to four in a loop, then start tapping your right [...]
Two Poems by Chelsea Eckert

December 1, 2014

THE ASEXUAL “I am sorry for your loss,” he said when I mentioned that after ten some- odd years of psychotropics, I was [...]
False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski

March 20, 2017

False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, [...]