lauren millici

he by lauren millici

says I’m a break from routine. Spends the night inside of me, a vacancy at a Motel Six. Fucks without his wedding ring, pays in ripped sheets and apologies. Swears he’s [...]

April 1, 2015

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 [...]
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 [...]
I know an old lady and other poems by Robert Beveridge

August 28, 2017

snake watches spider watches fly another hour like this Linda Blair, Superhero For Carla Toptsidis Enchanted is not the word [...]
white sheets and cow milk by Ingrid Solbrig

January 15, 2017

I want to write [a poem] about us but there is no us There is you, far and me, too close. There is you, unknown. I want to [...]
The Morning of the Day by Lee Foust

April 1, 2014

I half sat/half lay propped up on a pillow in bed looking out the bay window in the nearest corner of Betty’s large [...]
Sloppy Brain by Ashlie Allen

July 7, 2017

I’m not a ghost, but you touch me as if you can’t feel anything, expression absent of fascination, hands still like [...]
Sight-Seeing New York City Fall 2001 by Jonathan Church

September 4, 2017

A blind man steps onto the N train at 59th Street. He turns his head and seems to wait for a stranger to gently grasp his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
All types of powerlessness by Ashlie Allen

May 29, 2016

I like when I get dizzy and feel like talking about my misery after drinking. I can admit I am suicidal and laugh about it. [...]
Science and Change and other poems by Sarah Sarai

October 23, 2017

I declined a knighthood honoring my heroic efforts at keeping heroism effortless, something I perfected while [...]