I know. It’s easier to ignore the signs. by Lara Reis

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I know. It’s easier to ignore the signs.To pretend you’re right.‘I’ll be fine.’ You lie on those linesYou combine fake aligns.You summon forsaken divines.You spend hours on your mind mines;Collecting excuses and designs. Now listen to me...

Clown by Paula Puolakka

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Over ten years ago, I told everybody thatshe's no good: in her eyes, I saw a misanthropic fog,and I heard her blurt out half-baked thoughts concerningair travel and the political right.While I was planting trees and knee-deep...

“Falling” by Palash Mahmud

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Falling it’s raining out / a crow soakedfully sitting on / the windowpane in such a quietness / as if it wasn’t breathinglike a cotton-made piece / a drop of rainwater hanging on its beak / as...

The Story of Ego by A.D. Labuschagne

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Blank... That is how the story startedAnd that is what it becameAs Ego found itself one dayJust drifting on the open sea... Lost at sea... Somewhere between six and sixteenHe thought he knew who he wasBut that...

The Last Poem I Wrote To You by Shruti Pandey

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] It's something I swore I'd never do,Grow up and take on the traits of you,Saying no to giving me my favorite books,Shouted at for leaving on the TV.It's not like I was doing anything wrong,But I'd still...