BEWITCH hearts dip into death just for a taste, a reprieve from breath, yet now they are lost. skulls flicker with obsession flirt hard with silence, to end its ache. all our burning questions never had the answer; were only distractions from the fact, that timeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Alicia Mathias”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Donny Winter
The White Flag is Willingly Taciturn The over-weaponized army marches as gun-shells spill from open mouths still wide from the war four years ago, while the “torchbearers” rev by a new fuel, untapped, standing by. We, with the phantom-shrapnel pain in our chests, watch from our balconies as they burn the parchment-paper dream only toContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Donny Winter”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson
I’m a Riverboat Boy, Poem on Halsted Street As sure as church bells Sunday morning, ringing on Halsted and State Street, Chicago, these memories will be soon forgotten. I stumble in my life with these words like broken sentences. I hear and denounce myself in the distance, mumbling chatter off my lips. Fragments and chips.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Anthony Kane Evans
A Walk in the Woods There was a car crash. One of those accordion-style pileups. Black ice. The cars were still skidding in, adding to the damage. I saw her trapped in the middle of it all. Blue-gray car. Make smashed out of all recognition. She was screaming. I was trying to get onto theContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Anthony Kane Evans”
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