Poetry

"...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.

"...So tiny, and yet so much power do I have..."

"...A deafening silence sticks like glue..."

"...true Dionysian, letting go resentments and hurts..."

"...For a cause Sustainable? Or For a failure Unavoidable?.."

"That ginger aroma in my cup stirs some chords of yore..."

"...this man, who knows not how to be..."

"...A loud knock on the front door announces the arrival of Gauguin..."

"...her pen patted her paper like a chum..."

"...six bodies in all and 12 wounded..."

David Painter is a Northeast Ohio poet and photographer. His aim is to capture his point of view on the world through nature, culture, architecture and history.

"...two seconds to read and what seems like an eternity to craft..."

"...we rectify an entirely different set of divine rights..."

"...become a fire-breathing monster..."

"...for once, I couldn't leap into the next adventure...."