Poetry

"...Turns out that the entire world weeps..."

"...Water plus salt is salt-solution..."

"...a voice on the other end said: you can

"...hope promised to triumph..."

"...what

"...She walks a shaded woodland path..."

"...brought to life by the games of lights..."

Catfish McDaris won the Thelonius Monk Award in 2015. He’s been active in the small press world for 30 years.

"...get the hell out of my documentary!"

"...and at first sunlight, the bark of morning..."

"...On a bench, on our arm..."

"...you cannot possess the stars..."

"...conversations idle to a whisper..."

"...Others own the sky and sulk..."

Stephen Jarrell Williams writes at night, enthused, and waiting for the Coming Good Dawn. He can be found on Twitter at papapoet.

"...Standing there I could feel the slip of time..."

"...in a world where words are woven like tapestries...

"...Just how often can that woman truly be washing her hair?..."

"...only if we want to know..."

"word comes down from the North..."

"...Death may wait for Another day..."

"...the ambivalences of seeking spiritual guidance..."

"...Would your life be the same?..."

"...Things can

"...the infinite possibility of knowledge..."

Salim Yakubu Akko, World Voices Magazine

"...Oozed into the fissure of perceptual isolation..."

"...the sad man of the leafy suburbs..."

"...The blood on our hands is not a metaphor..."