Poetry

"...how about that taxing Taxcala chapter?!.."

"...When will the wait Be over?.."

"...I watched you, running after those who didn't even know you exist..."

Julianne Couch is a writer and author who tells complicated stories in simple ways, and simple stories in complicated ways. Narrative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry are her primary languages.

"...the dream I was having about this place..."

"...Only the lucky and foolish survive your embrace..."

"...sleepwalking into my to be lived future..."

"...A covenant defying logic..."

"...The dejected, the torn earns more adornment..."

"...like the vast steppes of Mongolia..."

"...working all afternoon on their day off..."

"...you're traversing lush jungles concealing forgotten cities. embrace it, relish it..."

"...panic as though the world has just ended..."

"...when he told me of his wartime incident I buttoned up insolence, all ears..."

Ambivert. One of the ten percent world southpaws. Writing evolves from thought, and so, Ridwanullah is a thinker. He is a virtuous indigene of Osun state, Nigeria.

"...does their brotherhood diminish by virtue of borders..."

"...The dead tide settles inside my room..."

"... a Sigh that escaped Your soul..."

"...I accept what is..."

"...a treasure overflows with pearls..."

"...cryptic and clouded, reveal just enough detail to cause trouble..."

"...Why spoil the surprise For youth in their prime?..."

Jay Passer's poetry and prose has appeared in print and online magazines, periodicals and anthologies since 1988. He is the author of 12 collections, most recently "The Cineaste," from Alien Buddha Press, 2021.

"my poem is an opposite, reverse, backward one..."

"...we are on lockdown to fight the storm that has come..."

"...A rope, a dragon..."

"...we sold this whole world out to blue light specials..."

"...The singers of songs love bars..."

"...Not for the false compliments that slide off his baroque tongue..."