Latest Poems
Pandemic
By Preeti Kailey
scream, thrall, football
is coming home
home to a country with blood red stripes that run like veins through our bodies
A Walk in the Park
By Charlie Hill
And so, walking jumpily through the park where I had once played
drinking games with miscreants and unnamed Polish spirits – in joyous
violation of arcane mores and public health advice
Two Poems
By John M. Heavey
This feather-light, pleated mask,
blue as a summer day,
familiar as underwear,
could be a parasail for crickets,
a beach cabana for mice.
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