Poetry

"...the ones behind the masks..."

"...the fallen valley of what you never knew you couldn't have..."

"...drunks swaggering home..."

"We have the kinship of famous and ordinary..."

"...no better place to have a drink..."

"...no longer see past shadows that linger across treetops..."

"...a poor, petrifying, parched plainness..."

Mihaela Melnic lives and writes in Rome, Italy where her prose and poetry evolve and take different shapes with every new life experience

"...Your loving words count for everything..."

"...Braving each storm..."

"...Assume not that my name is yours to speak..."

"...A wave comes and Washes away your Memories..."

"...Gravity doesn't exist, people float around..."

"...Celtic sanctuary on the mountain summit..."

"...existences will be defined by those incredible hours..."

"...Naming is as psychological as it is spiritual..."

"...that mindfulness will carry you halfway toward any goal..."

"...their spines the centerpiece on crosses on scarecrows..."

"...I cannot dispatch you to a fettered future..."

"...Ten pounds of peace, a dozen poems, and a hundred dreams..."

"...Remember when we first saw her..."

"...It's a day already half over with..."

"...I prefer to parse the fictions of homesick revelers returning from holidays..."

"...The familiarity of promise is like an earworm..."

"...big as the buildings all around him..."

Sorin Martin works as an EMT in Indiana, and writes in his free time.

"...I'd like to walk it one day..."

"The usual way to celebrate Easter..."

Two lifetimes ago, Catherine performed her poetry in Madrid. Now her main jobs are to write and hang out with her family.

Ann Privateer grew up in the Midwest and now lives in California. She is a poet, artist, and photographer.