Poetry

March 8, 2014 Reader Submission

Sell Your Soul or Watch Birds Fly a Poem by Carter Hamm

The complex world is amazing to see yet, Everything seems so ordinary to me. When I think of the bird that just

March 6, 2014 Reader Submission

God is a toaster oven Melting cheese on the bread of men Can’t you see He’s been catching the crumbs all along?

City Hall

February 28, 2014 Benjamin Riggs

Anytime I meet someone new and we get around to the “what do you do for a living” conversation, I’m always met

February 25, 2014 Reader Submission

Lying beneath a fig tree I thirst for knowledge Overcome by a suffering desire To bite into the fruit it bears To

February 20, 2014 Reader Submission

Hey, mom! I missed you. Yes ma’am, I had a good day. You look like you’ve been crying Are you sure that

February 12, 2014 Will McGrew

The sea birds Flew around me And the breeze from the water kissed my nose As I woke up and thought

February 12, 2014 Reader Submission

Body. Your curves. Your lines. Your lumps. Thank you for carrying me from place to place, but I detest you. The

February 8, 2014 Reader Submission

No more will I allow you to treat me like shit; I will no longer bow and refuse to admit that this

February 7, 2014 Reader Submission

I write. I write that my words might spring to life and dance right off the page. Dance right off the page

February 5, 2014 Reader Submission

You were always the first to fall asleep. I could never sleep when I was with you; I could never waste the