Bare Bark
The late February tree stood in the moonlight, its bare branches, covering the dead grass. No leaves to sway in the dull wind. Just the...
Edwin Reyes
Mar 31
Fall Down seven times, stand up eight.
You fall. The ground greets you like an old enemy. The weight of failure presses into your skin, whispers in your ear—stay down. But...
Arnulfo Cordero
Mar 29
Sugar High
I’m not much of sweet tooth, sugar makes me sick. Yet, maybe your sweet taste distorted my gums, so the heaviness in my molars became ...
Ava Hedstrom
Mar 28
There was a still lake
There was a still lake, timeless in its beauty. Chirping birds, rocky sand, and clear skies surround, as distant laughter sounds. The...
Katie Glatzle
Mar 26
Yearning for you
Like an empty music stand— yearning for even a decibel of noise, I lie awake thinking of you. It reaches out hoping for a pluck of a...
Delmy Garcia
Mar 26
Hope is the piece of paper...
Hope is the piece of paper that is Drenched in water— With the pen smears that does not change the meaning of the words. The tear in the...
Priscilla Kenny
Mar 24
The Weight of Forgiveness
They say forgive and forget. Somehow I was never able to do either. Lying awake in the dark, tossing and turning between my warm...
Palak Singh
Mar 24
The Color Pink
When I was three I loved the color pink. Pastel, neon, magenta; pink was my color. My cerise coat and my bubblegum rain boots sat in the...
Ella Brenner
Mar 22
Him
I need to stop doubting myself. Making people’s mistakes my mistakes, Making myself the bad guy like I’m manipulating them. The words...
Mario Jaime
Mar 20
I have nothing to fear
But drowning, Or maybe tsunamis, Or monsoons, Or even rain, Actually, any body of water really. I hate the idea of looking below me And...
Victoria McAuley
Mar 20