One night I woke up feeling dead because a bat flew into my head. Every time it flapped its' wings it filled my mind with awful things. Like a vampire, it drank my pain, and it laughed out loud as I went insane. It played me like a puppet, making me do stupid things. And … Continue reading The Bat that Flew Into My Head: Robert St. Germain
Category: Kaleidoscope
Sit: Raime Goldberg
I look out the window I am in a room of my apartment I look out the big window I shifted the blinds open to see I see bright street lights They are in a row They light up the street Beautiful uplifting pattern I feel light I hear music Radio is on CBC station … Continue reading Sit: Raime Goldberg
Refugee: Margot Block
the pentangle upside swing of a Wiccan refugee taking me aside at Mayflower with lightning in the sky now the sun rises over the moon as a dragon comes to call with no expectation of war is this destruction good enough for you to believe?
Priceless: Jordan Derksen
The rich man wants more the poor man goes without. The refugees want peace but you give them war. Juggling your livelihood fat stacks of cash decides If you're rich or poor, if you have peace or war. Peace, the price of which is paid in many ways but its values are far greater than … Continue reading Priceless: Jordan Derksen
A Puppet with Many Strings: John Oross
I used to work real hard A circus life no lie One day then another Simply flew on by It’s true what they say about working another man’s dream Your life fades… follow your own dreams The future comes on hard So put aside your past Embrace all the wisdom learned And have yourself a … Continue reading A Puppet with Many Strings: John Oross
Frosted Glass: James Adamson
The winter view is captured in tree limbs sliced imagery or clouds in the sky that have aliens and penguins and comic characters frozen all winter They ripple and layer and unevenly capture the light The inner rhythms of a word like frost vibrate of the ancient wisdom of letters though the glass remains covered … Continue reading Frosted Glass: James Adamson
Temptation: Hanna Friesen
Temptation: It's so tempting to fall- to slip- And fake it. To act nice when I'm not nice- when what's inside doesn't line up with that fake smile. So, don't buy it- if I'm selling it. just see through me past the outer shell through the ugly courtyard and into the place where there's gotta … Continue reading Temptation: Hanna Friesen
Men in Black: Cassandra Kulay
You terrified me right out of my objections killed my soul and spirit and proceeded to dissect them. We are never free of one another’s projections in this ugly, silent place I see what you have done behind my back and to my face I want you gone, but I am not the one who … Continue reading Men in Black: Cassandra Kulay
Time Stilled: Andrews
Time stilled when you held my hand When blossoms of spring bloomed love Your soul likened to wheat fields swaying In rhythm with breezes of life’s whisperings Trees bowed to the breath of our first kiss Moons rising on these endless nights’ affairs Building a home with life as one With children playing surrounding around … Continue reading Time Stilled: Andrews
Starting Over: Cassandra Kulay
Biting the regression, a teething ring, hearing echoes of nowhere, hollowed out for advancement, blind as Oedipus, ekeing out a living on charity, despite my best efforts, or so I am told. Someday, this losing streak will be skidding like a car on an icy road, out of control, faster than perception, faster even than … Continue reading Starting Over: Cassandra Kulay
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