Gentle now, please.
The sentiment of keeping your pillows hugged tight at night. The softness you accept of the rain against the glass of your window. The...
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Scott Hughes
- Nov 5, 2022
- 2 min
Will-o'-the-Wisp
On sin-strewn soil she scampers, a flitting firefly upon the long night. Through frosted-brittle bracken and frigid grasses green her...
Katy Harrison
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
Plague of Inaction
Do we ever know what that something is? That adjective that’s utterly indescribable, that verb that can’t ever be put to work, that noun...
Katy Harrison
- Jul 3, 2022
- 1 min
Oh Dear, you loser.
Tragedy. Do you feel how truly awful it is? Do you not feel embarrassed? Do you not feel… at least the slightest bit awkward? Or like you...
Scott Hughes
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Whale Fall
Under frigid tides, love’s last joyous lungful escapes, so finally, passion’s carcass may sink. Bound to a heartstrung anchor, we drift,...
Katy Harrison
- Jan 19, 2022
- 1 min
What IS it?
Is our shared time ineffectual? Is this an unrecognised personal fault? Or is it you, avoiding an insect on your bedroom wall; one you...
Em ✩
- Mar 10, 2021
- 1 min
Brighton Beach
a polished coin glimmering in the cerulean sky, gazing fondly over the glittering azure blanket that rustles and foams beneath. murmuring...
Yuuki Uchida
- Oct 29, 2020
- 2 min
To Mankind, From Earth
Eyes fluttering open, I woke up beside him with his face close to mine. I sighed. I’d given in to the argument yet again, crawling back...
Katy Harrison
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
My Grey, My Colours.
This October the nights are long, my nights are drawn out. It must be soon until the sun brings with it my purpose. O, for when it cries,...
Scott Hughes
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min
Legacy
We flee to the bedroom, the study, the café; hounded by foreseen fears. We don the writer’s robes and gaze pagewards, deep into...
Olivia Gurney-Randall
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
Ha! We live!
Never be ashamed of overthinking and over-feeling, it is a beautiful thing to feel. Sensitivity is precious, don’t lose it. Those who...
Scott Hughes
- Sep 30, 2020
- 1 min
The Stolen Pen
With whose stolen pen is it my hand writes? On my page, where art and theft lie so blurred: From an unlived life, rich with unseen...
Lauren Levine
- Sep 6, 2020
- 1 min
The Lifting
There is a rigid tugging. The metamorphis must arise, Soon we must emerge, ennobled, Out the swaddling of our homes. Liberation awaits us...
Scott Hughes
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
Eulogy for a Summer
Confined to our homes we wade in liquid time. Its brackish tides lap at our limbs and refresh our egos, though we’ve never a drop to...
Jordan Kupfer
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
Love
The feeling in the air The warmth around me The smell of freedom Where will you take me? When will the sun stop shining When will the...
Jordan Kupfer
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
The Gray Blanket
The clouds covered the sky, a gray blanket over the Earth. A light breeze blew beneath the blanket, sending gray leaves and gray dust...
Jordan Kupfer
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
A Supernova
They predicted it would end soon One final boom to burn us all up. I stood atop a cliff looking over the ocean as the sun set for the...
Scott Hughes
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
Willowherb Boys
In lax, liberal dirt, lean latchkey weeds oft sprout, tucked away from the soldierly nurseries and well-to-do pastures of the great city...
Andrew Sullivan
- Aug 22, 2020
- 3 min
Winslow
Born of the sea, and to return I shall. Marching to the shores and over stones, sinking into pits and finally getting my first taste of...
Olivia Gurney-Randall
- Aug 22, 2020
- 2 min
Meditation
My naked body writhes in honey-dew sheets of sweat Despising its thought-existence and craving the softness of another body, Yet all that...
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