jason brightwell

Summer Storm and Birds by Jason Brightwell

Evening sky sags in recovery, hanging a lantern — yellow half-light, birds recognize the nearing end of a summer storm. Still an angry rain kept time, assaulting nests, [...]

March 19, 2016

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 [...]
ross from friends emoji set by chuck young

February 17, 2017

two smiling mouths / pressed against each / other gospeling secrets / down ticklish throats. / personal history [...]
Behavior Pattern by Frank Rubino

September 2, 2016

I have very much liked you— to feel one has acted well— My behaviors were in admiration of you and perhaps imitative [...]
Two Poems by Daniel Ford

April 1, 2014

the subway On the metro today, Red line between Metro and Union I saw a girl Who reminded me so much of you I looked four [...]
Mind Herbs by Ashlie Allen

January 16, 2017

He brought me herbs, though I was not sick in the body. No one could see where the illness lived except him. First, he [...]
Tight and other poems by Meg Johnson

March 4, 2017

I was not a child of product demonstrations. I would tie myself up in string. Each tug a prayer to be rescued from the [...]
How were we to know? by Daniel Von der Embse

April 1, 2015

A small, scented patch of paper is all that remains of the time we lived together above the all-night barbershop on [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

August 1, 2015

Single Malt Upward is where you look to find Unsatisfying answers to Somebody else’s dumb questions. Upward is the most [...]
Sadness and other poems by George Franklin

February 16, 2017

I talk about sadness as though she were a dinner guest Who’s overstayed her welcome. It’s one in the morning and She’s [...]
Quartet for Winds and other poems by Aaron Brame

January 12, 2017

Quartet for Winds I. My mother birthed me in a skyscraper, named me after the largest city known to the world. Made me a [...]
Charting Greatness by Laura Iodice

March 14, 2017

Like many baby boomers, I learned how to diagram sentences in grade school. As a kid who loved reading and writing, I [...]
Commitments by Kelle Grace Gaddis

December 29, 2016

His coarse beard was an array of auburn, brown and gray strands, hairs upturned and twisted out to the side refusing to [...]