Reconnecting with Mira

Reconnecting with Mira by Prachi Jain

From: janya@yahoo.com To: miracares@yahoo.com Subject: I Am Sorry Mira, I have been thinking about you for a long time and today when I write to you I feel I should [...]

February 1, 2014

Unrecovered Poem by Samantha Madway

September 2, 2016

Rooms filthy from all the sorrow. Trashcans filled with tissues filled with snot. Dark circles dyed under every eye. Dead [...]
Two Poems by Helen Wickes

September 2, 2016

January Dazzle What did we know then—clock ticking, spilled salt, and that one faucet— bitterly, bitterly. The heart [...]
Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard

January 30, 2017

You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in [...]
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin No.1 by John Dorsey

June 1, 2015

a kid jacking another kid in the face outside the elementary school an old man in a fur coat carrying a dollhouse [...]
Vixen by Kieron Walquist

February 27, 2017

After Ma died, the fox appeared. Black-mittened, face and fur scorched in red, the vixen would prowl our neglected hayfield, [...]
I am my own planet by Meg Johnson

March 22, 2019

I don’t suffer from night terrors, but if I ever do, I hope I scream out, Neely O’Hara! I could scream this out while [...]
Morning in Portland and other poems by George Franklin

August 21, 2017

Orange peels on the plate, broken curls Of skin, scent of trees from Morocco, Spain, or somewhere else, somewhere other Than [...]
Two Poems by Sarah Sala

June 1, 2015

POEM AFTER MAN: KITCHEN TABLE 1. I thought here’s a man who owns who he is. Look how natural you move in your animal skin. [...]
True Blue by Sarah Vernetti

April 1, 2015

Amber had almost survived another day. The children scrambled to find their places in line. A whirlwind of backpacks and [...]
Two Poems by Leisha Douglas

March 19, 2016

WAITING Dogwood buds like tiny fists defy gray skies and leafless trees. Amid the pallor of necessary fire, I wait curled [...]
Two Poems by Carla McGill

May 29, 2016

ANOTHER DRIVE This time I leave the circling freeways of Los Angeles, head the other way toward the burnt land of [...]
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 [...]