Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
Cognitive Dissonance by Isabella Wisinger When obedience earns love,you can never say no.If I could peel away every sticky piece of skin,there would be nothing left between you and I,or you and I,or you and I.Why isn’t it working?I thought giving in meant you...
Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
ETERNITY ISN’T AS LONG AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE by Allison Flory I flipped a rusted quarter, so wornyou couldn’t make out the profile of George Washingtonas he floated in mid air, bated breathbefore finally making up his mind, falling and ...
Apr 19, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
heavenward by Madison Huskey if it wasn’tso dark,you would seethe three of us heads cranedback, eyesheavenwardscanning the sky for the oncein a century cometwith sevenminutes to catch the breezeis gentleas our voices,as a prayer i couldn’t tell you what we spoke of...
Apr 19, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
Our Eternal Hearts by Andrew Ruegsegger We will die and the breeze will still blow, and there will fly the ashes of all we have known. We will become the dirt, fish, and the stars and those stars will die and become hearts like ours. Those hearts will bleed and cry...
Apr 19, 2022 | All Art, Issue 5, Issue 5 Art
Seeing With My Eyes Closed by Isabella...
Apr 19, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
Coming Alive Again: A Prelude by Keith Rees Four in the morning and your eyes blot themselves into being. It isn’t strange to wake up to the dark, anymore, to the unwelcome gift of the buses and their hinge-like complaints skating across, berating, a solid oil strip....