justin hyde

At my sons concert and other poems by Justin Hyde

at my son’s concert on a little wooden chair next to my ex-wife in the auditorium. we don’t talk much outside of co-parenting. but i know she recently found out [...]

January 9, 2017

four poems by Justin Hyde

i haven’t been with his wife in three months as i come out of the showers towel around my waist at the ymca he’s standing at a locker across from me stripping off [...]

April 1, 2015

Four Poems by Justin Hyde

after your best friend’s wedding we stood naked in front of the hotel mirror arms behind each other’s backs marveling at our youth electric to start our own family [...]

December 1, 2014

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 [...]
Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard

January 30, 2017

You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in [...]
Garden Before The Move by Jean C. Howard

March 19, 2016

Like an old movie, sepia tone soaking through light falling frame by frame, slow death rattling across the pavers, Or even [...]
please leave a message and other poems by katie lewington

March 27, 2017

the echo of a call rings on voicemail left undeleted repeated until the words are a mantra in your head have to let go but [...]
the sun shouts at us in tongues and other poems by William James

January 20, 2017

The sun shouts at us in tongues through the tower window. Calls us by name & we hide ourselves from its gaze. From the [...]
Life Hack by Jessica Bonder

January 27, 2017

Denial, it ain’t just a river. This is what passes for psychoanalytical comedy, cross-stitched on a decorative accent [...]
With Feathers by Sheldon Lee Compton

April 10, 2017

What place is safe now, so we can say what our good logic leads us to understand? Saying we will create our own sunlight, [...]
I WANT TO BE LIKE CIRCE POISONING THE SEA by DEIRDRE COYLE

March 19, 2016

When the god, Glaucus, fell in love with the sea nymph, Scylla, and Scylla rejected him, Glaucus went to the witch, [...]
San Juans by Dede Cummings

April 1, 2015

From here she can see no islands, only a mountain beyond water mostly purple-black and defying the orange-spreading sky. [...]
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 [...]
This Isn’t a Funeral by K. Barber

August 1, 2015

It is a sticky August afternoon, and flies keep landing on me like I’m a corpse. “Emily,” my mother [...]
Splintered Love and other poems by J. B Stone

October 23, 2017

Our love used to be this cozy little cabin Secluded from the irrational drama The world throws at others Our love wasn’t [...]