Poetry

"...To make writing an almost daily thing..."

Umar Yogiza Jr. is a writer, poet and builder based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is the author of "Instrument of Immortality" and "Singing In A Bonfire."

Ian C Smith's work has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, Australian Poetry Journal, Critical Survey, Live Encounters, Poetry New Zealand, Southerly, & Two-Thirds North. He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.

"...terns hover over crests of rolling waves..."

"...piled high with bacon, hash browns, biscuits and gravy..."

"...you became a legend in real life..."

"...The world is a phantom city that is layer after layer..."

"...never doubt my love..."

"a crusader who cuddled a skunk..."

"...spring goes to the bar to drink whiskey..."

Kevin Ridgeway is the author of "Too Young to Know" (Stubborn Mule Press). A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, he lives and writes in Long Beach, CA.

"...thousands of unforgettable nightmares..."

"...to contemplate man's place in the universe..."

"...the way you vacuum the carpet in acute angles..."

"...She would wash your heart away..."

"...silent valentine for what no longer exists..."

"...like a crayfish running forward and backward...

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"...because I'm just like all the rest..."

"...the music's dead pulse mirrors our smiles..."

"...The phone rings. You listen to the machine answer..."

"...Shining bright and light upon the soul..."

"...kicking up a tumbleweed tsunami..."

"...waiting for a next journey on a park bench..."

"...she was a blessing to her patients..."

"... This benign act hurts no one except..."

Yasmin Hemmat is an English literature student and part-time teacher with a passion for reading poetry. She has been published in Literary Hatchet Journal.

"...BREAK CLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY..."

"...the world is a dreamland..."

"...there I was jammed into a dirt pen with a 600 pound porcine..."