Category Archives: Poetry

Carol Dorf Detail of Silence Encircled, in a ghostly frame, the face drops its mask, only two fingers to the lips as protection from the monster balloon of perfectibility. Infinite progress another heartless notion, like bright trains passing through landscapes … Continue reading →

Bruce Majors Hall of Mirrors There is no pain, you are receding a distant ship, smoke on the horizon Pink Floyd Walking down the narrow hall, mirrors set so that it is possible to walk into eternity, getting smaller and … Continue reading →

Alexander Lumans In The City of Broken Umbrellas The sidewalks are mirrors she searches into. The coastal rains aim straight for her head. Her roadmap says all things meet at the downtown Axis Mundi. Leaning into the wind, she does … Continue reading →

Bruce Majors The Black Unicorn The clock, hanging on my drawing room wall, never sounded so loud, the eccentric ticking, monotonously, reminds me of days past. I tell myself, the terrible days are passed. Ghosts share this silent house, their … Continue reading →

Marian Rosarum A portrait of the witch at sixteen My sister learned to raise the dead when she was sixteen— a number associated with story-shaped girls who tumble into the underworld by caressing the length of a spindle or by … Continue reading →

Laura Madeline Wiseman The Crying Tree The fairies have begun crying. They’ve cried wolf, stood as the town crier to give the general cry, the far cry, the cry from the heart, for the moon, within cry of you standing … Continue reading →

Jill Angel Langlois The Alley In the dark fog of night, in an alley in a forlorn neighborhood, a boy is naked and crying. His pants are around his ankles. Four hands explore his bruised and trembling flesh. His smothered … Continue reading →

Chloe N. Clark The Visionist She reads the temperature of storms in the dance of pine needles and the way light falls through windows—is it plummeting? Leaping? Accidentally tumbling? When she finds thumbprints on pieces of glass, she counts the … Continue reading →