As you swing
it tumbles from you,
untethered by tune,
uncluttered by words,
all that remains is
song.
© 2018, Emma Taylor
Emma Taylor is a psychologist, writer, and mother of impossibly many children. To see more of her work, visit http://licktheplate.wordpress.com and follow her at @emmataylorwords.
all this social media
have we forgotten
how to tell a good story
from just lies?
© 2018, Jim Spencer
Jim Spencer is a zen priest, trucker, farm hand, father, husband – but not necessarily in that order. For more of his work, visit http://www.jimspencerpoetry.com
pearling the dark,
their earthbound galaxy
hovers over
the cobble-stoned street—
© 2018, Kristen Zimmer
Kristen Zimmer is an English Literature student at the University of Toronto. Her poetry has been published in the UC Review, The Humming Magazine, and Vagabond City. To see more of Kristen’s work, also visit her blot at https://www.instagram.com/zimmmmmmer/
Blowing in a sand court,
I might have been wearing a tawny field
of dust, a carnival field,
the people waiting to be let in for the fireworks
in the yard where tents stood,
boiling water for grey porridge
on a hill of pines,
in the cold wood morning
I might have laid your pale coat across my lap
© 2018, Rachel Elion Baird
Offering up poems as a language of shared experience, Rachel Elion Baird’s poems are confessional and often visual; unfolding stories through descriptive imagery. For more of her work, visit http://rachelbairdart.com/words and follow her @rachelbaird1122
she may translate
him [short i]
for you
[no good-bye]
substitute
his active verbs
[no protection]
for your
dangling modifiers
© 2018, Kyle Hemmings
Kyle Hemmings is a retired health care worker who’s been published in many journals. Also visit her work at https://upatberggasse19.blogspot.com/ and follow her at @smersh01.
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