By Nathan Lunt In the darkening glow of a moonlit sunset, I met a familiar stranger walking the lonely communal road To the central...

By Maeve McKenna under a rubbish truck Gerard’s hanging from the second-floor balcony syringes stuck to chewing gum on the chalked stones...

By Simon Ó Conchúir Oh if you’d only slice me open Divine vivisection Searching now with surgeon’s hand For my source of life’s great...

By DLC Hanson Bedraggled and spent, the passionless and the damned scrambled south through febrile grume, hemmed and steered by sleight...

By Mehran Waheed “Papa! Papa!”   Your howls prey on my name, shake the stars, rattle the moon, shock my heart like a horse's head on my...

By C. J. Jagger In the dark hours of torn wings Your feathers fall I’ll meet you there A broken voice calls Shame upon thy name And...

By Áine Rose Connell Greyness drinks colour from the sky, knocks it back clean. A notepad is filled by a girl in a field, where two quiet...

By Mohammed Omer You’d think that the sight of blood would be enough, To act with some compassion and empathy, To realise the urgency of...

By Angela Cheveau             i.m. of Emily Bronte’s Beloved Dog   When night had teeth / my mistress / was all snarl and spit / beneath...

By Wanda McAulay Unbeknownst to you is the pain that I feel, The pain of your memory, from my head to my heel. You took your own life...

By Kathryn McCone Usher No beachcomber ever shall find me nor the constant lighthouse lamp. Quarrelsome lament, gulls spew forth ‘free’  ...

By Lorna Smart His hardness pounded into her softness, despite her words. She tried everything she could think of: She flattered him She...

By Naomi Mills His home had always been a safe place. Filled with the clutter of ages, it cocooned her from the outside world. The odds...

By Míchaél McCormack Horror picture's terror vision I have to scream at my indecision Vladimir Putin came for blood Nightly News said he...

By A. M. Rossiter I was plucked from my home and                                                     hurled to a time where we learnt to...

(Seasonal Affective Disorder) By Helen Gunn Under the green veil winter stood silent — a heaviness in the air   The emerald landscape had...

By Caressa layne And here you are The headlights switched off Delaying Knowing the stretch before you yawns into the night   And do you...

By Daniel Whelan How half cut was thy father, ear lipped and snifter snout, when he heard the word of a straight cure that cleared his...

By Darren Vukasinovic She was suffocating me With her silence, Staring through me Out the window beyond us Where once was freedom, Making...

By Navnoor Sandhu I feel it, before I know it—a pressure, Not a headache, nor throb, deeper- A silent ache, sinking, deeper- Crushing my...