“For Example” By: Yuan Changming
There is a 7-year cycle of economic crash The sun never set within the British territories The yingzheng of Qin burned all the bamboo books And buried all the C...
Tag: nature
“What’s within what’s within” By: Gabriel Yao Chad Boyer
The eyes that see this story are waving at me ecstatically, are eyes that will flower erratically into the formless buttocks of the animal kingdom is showing it...
“Moth” By: Raymond Kramp
I watch a moth crawl up my leg It leers at me with those dusty feelers I push him away Send him plummeting into a bucket of water He takes a dunk Climbs out of ...
“Untitled” By: Jeffrey S. Callico
Black and White Photography
“The Sand Maiden” By: Eric Allen Yankee
Today I built a sandcastle. I started by digging a moat And shoveling a path for the water To rush in and fill the empty spaces. I constructed a c...
“After the Apocalypse” By Dr. Mel Waldman
After the Apocalypse, I split apart The red-brown earth eats my dissolving thoughts, into random atoms returns to chaos, breathes toxic dust; swirling around th...
“The 16th of Brumaire” By: Ben Nardolilli
Drinking hard lemonade At a progressive community building event, I am spying for company, someone Cisgendered, I admit, But confession is a form of progress, I...
“Metro Beach” By: Yong Takahashi
I hold my breath as my mother holds me under the water. This is not the first time we have visited Metro Beach. While other people come here to enjoy the beauti...
“Breach” By: Jennifer Lagier
The sea boils with a combination of brown kelp and anchovies. Terns fling themselves from gray sky, belly flop like clowns, disappear under water. ...
“Reunion” By: Annalise Mabe
Poppy taught us where the safety is, and how to hold real still when your finger pulls the trigger. Into the hot baked clay, like mom’s cakes or her hair pomade...