By Laura Theis I am lost to the sadness of the gods those dear jesters who aren’t used to denying or restricting themselves   whose...

By Isaac Thornton Old friend, it does not seem like you to have followed me into this world under the spotlight of the delivery room, but...

By Lisa Lopresti The breaking of the Denby plate was a satisfying full stop  in the argument. The crash, a more musical note than I was...

By Anthony Gorin of Beauty in Normalcy Retreat inwards harden your shell and attach new spines, fortify your defences, prepare for the...

By Anna Gill The power I inherit is that of charisma that potent and hypnotic melisma   You showed me how this could be harnessed peering...

By Abigail Ottley there will be, so she imagines, this one, final encounter. She skips over the details, such mundane practicalities as...

By Jazz Sambac The world is sepia on polaroid. No more in black and white. With age, I too have changed perspective, New things exposed...

By Hilary Key I dreamed my childrens’ childhoods before I left (not them) the marital home And in that dream, still cleaning found An...

By Maddison O'Donnell I am the cryptid condensed upon your clavicle and chest. Lonesome, irksome dark huddling thing. I creep unearthly...

By Maddison O'Donnell She thinks – nay, knows who she is when camped out alone, digesting a spoilt slice of humble pie she’d been served...

By Maddison O'Donnell Oh, for Arachne’s sake, here she comes again dark candyfloss cloud haloing her head; Satan’s angel come to undo me....

By Maddison O'Donnell You touch the redcurrant blood that thrums through my veins so many thousands of miles away across the sea   And...

By Maddison O'Donnell Splayed out, I am worn bare by the limitless dark of night,the grit in my canines still tasting of grief,...

By Martin Jones The gray of slate in a rainstorm, of dry leaves on the heath, of waking to funerals, of thoughts lacking form. The gray...

By Lillibit Ray Falling asleep only to wake up again, But now paralyzed, frozen in bed. I see the room and the door, open to the hallway,...

By Josie Hough My blood is hot today frittering and spluttering at boiling point a bubbling vat of blackcurrant jam my blood is hot for...

By Mags D. I lie down with your bones,  On these soft, summer nights. Nobody knows For I'm gone by first light. And I feel you beneath...

By Autumn Lily Joseph And you let him take from you Piece by piece, slowly to begin with, you’d never have seen it coming: The...

By Jonathan Chibuike Ukah A finger tossed at sea, water floating over it.   I stared at it with a red face, until my cheeks had cakes of...

By RoJ When I was small You were home without a word Life was you And you were life   When I was less small My lips would call you Mummy...