a hot wind smell of grease stink of sweat breastplate heavy roaring through valleys so majestic in daylight sun ominously splayed out an open door no feelings put away in a box forgotten unwanted …
Forest Green by Dasya Willis
It’s the color that goes the most unseen It winds through the forest Yet it’s passed by every tourist “It’s just another color you see everyday, It’s too ordinary”, they say You see it everywhere, yet it goes unnoticed A …
A Candle Burning by Dasya Willis
A memorial poem to soldiers who haven’t returned home and people who have lost friends and family to suicide or forms of violence A candle burning Midnight moon returning A silent night concerning Racing thoughts overturning A candle burning A …
Until I am alive again by JD Ford
My mind wanders to the square glassand bounces off like a fly trying to escape the grey colorless landscape,rebuffed by a transparent barrier.Its efforts increasingly frantic as it fails to escape to the outside monochrome.A buzz of lights and wings.So …
On Love by Jaiden Grunkemeyer
The sun shines, as the moon fadesOne of us pines, as the other waitsThey all say that I should leaveGo in and out I should weaveBetween traffic, in between guysDo they speak truth, or spit lies?They say the world is …
An Ancient Galaxy by Drake Genzel
Astronomers have traced the origin of a fast radio burst (FRB) to the edge of an ancient galaxy — suggesting that these mysterious, millisecond-long flashes of energy are even weirder than previously thought.FRBs were discovered nearly two decades ago, and …
How Come? By Nicole Payne
Five months since you charmed her with a smile and foolish joke.Three since you danced, your gaze fixed on her,the young woman unable to meet your eyes, trying not to submit to shaky knees.Only two since she became a ghost …
Out of Place by Gabby Bryant
When feelings misalign, I stand, A stranger in a crowded land. How will I push? How will I be? How will someone truly see me? I just want to go home, not try,Afraid of every glance that slides by. Rejected …
Daylight Savings by Morgan Sanders
There’s something to be said about the sunEither blazing or wantingWhen summers arrived, it’s in full effect All I can do is hideShield my eyes from blatant rays, yearn for cooler timesBut when days of red and yellow come to …