Briarwood
By Jelisa Gonzalez | November 6, 2023 Photo Credit: Adobe Stock Images I look up at the trees lining the hills, As pillars to my greater...
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Edge of Emotion
By Jelisa Gonzalez | October 16, 2023 Peeling Crumbling Blistering Red And almost blue I’m Closer to my veins Than I am to you Peeling…...
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Mountain Air’s Lost Daughter
By Mattie Fitzpatrick | October 2, 2023 Photo Credit: Romolo Tavani on Shutterstock The last thing I remember was they said the mountain...
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A Thought/An Idea
By Jelisa Gonzalez | October 2, 2023 I see you glisten from the illuminated box My eye doesn’t look off I’m holding you, Clutching the...
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The Fishbowl
By Jelisa Gonzalez | September 25, 2023 Photo Credit: Pixabay Perpendicular on all four sides I’m enclosed Encapsulated by Gray concrete...
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Seconds, Minutes, Hours
By Henry Fisher | August 28, 2023 Photo Credit: Pexels The seconds hand is fast. You can see the time burn, Though it’s slow against the...
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Blessings
By Saif Parchment | May 1, 2023 He said Forgive me Father up in Heaven. He was carrying a smith and wesson “He was carrying a smith and...
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Where the Birds Fly
By Henry Fisher | April 3, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP The Earth is awake with the sound of man’s tools. Each one a...
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Ode to the Mountain of Knives
By Henry Fisher | March 6, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP I am told it’s time to climb the Mountain of Knives, the one that...
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Short Piece on Sobriety
By Ivette Rodriguez | March 6, 2023 I know many of you will read the title and end it there. I mean, why wouldn't you? We’re 18, 19, 20,...
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The Child Inside
By Ivette Rodriguez | February 27, 2023 The child in me is so angry Angry that I was always the caretaker Never being taken care of But...
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Raindrop Haikus
By Henry Fisher | February 20, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP A few small raindrops, Trail across the car window. To the...
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Relapse On My Mind
By Ivette Rodriguez God I want to do coke so badly Why’d G have to hit me up today… I was so so close And now it feels like I am...
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Mother Daughter Mother
By: Ivette Rodriguez Mom, if you were my daughter You’d be the most loved in the world Flower crowns adorning your pretty face And a...
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Lorraine
Shianne Henion | April 19, 2022 It’s six in the morning. I sit in the hospital in a daze, unsure of what’s happening. But I know then,...
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Building Sandcastles Out of Ashes
By Henry Fisher It started the morning after a bonfire, When the ashes reminded you of sand. The gray remains not quite granular, And yet...
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Starbright
By Jada Jinks | February 28, 2022 Moonlight dances across my fingertips I paint the sky shades of blue. There was never once a woman That...
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Vast
By Shianne Henion I am clay in your hands, the curl of the ocean, I am gravel and moss and peonies picked by those same nails that dug...
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The Berkshires
Hannah Karim I lose the game, pull the wrong card, but as I stand up, so do you, you tell me I won’t have to jump in alone. We stand,...
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A frozen block of ice
By Jada Jinks A frozen block of ice Weighing upon my chest Memories of you beside me I look upon with dread Lay me down my lover and...
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