Such a lived livid life

- Richard Hague

Memories without language

- Richard Hague

Trembling, as in many vowels

sung together. A certain otherness

of skin, as if preparing to molt.

Perceptions of words

as transformers, metamorphic.

- Richard Hague

called crazy

and queer all my life

- david b. prather

i am

hungry. i try to be

good. it makes no sense

for any thing

to be. where do i

end? it all: 

a means to

- al ann kifolo

I forget how to cross roads, 

the beep’s always red, 

so I stay on the pavement.  I obey the rules. 

I forget the time of day, 

If it’s light it must be night, 

Or is it the other way round.

- Di Hills 

The bird strives to catch 

The wind, but it is so strong 

It traps the bird instead

- Yuan Changming

“Please sing ‘Strange Fruit’

for me”

- Yusef Komunyakaa

The magpies gaze at us

- Yusef Komunyakaa

I know "inflated tear"

means worlds approaching pain

& colliding

- Yusef Komunyakaa

crooning desire

- yusef komunyakaa

This naked,

exposed wound lust, 

this tormenting, 

twisted, tangled 

love

- James Roach

His honeyed words
stick to the caverns
of my heart

- James Roach

It is luck, then. That is what you will blame. That is

what you will learn: that it has no meaning. It was not 

because you needed to become a better person; it will not 

teach you anything about yourself. It happened because

sometimes bad things happen and sometimes they happen

to you. It will deny you the chance to find purpose in it; there 

is nothing to believe in except that it does not make sense.

- Grace Alvino