Zachary Dein Reisch
Awake
My back breaks, a few vertebrae from the bottom. Arms go knuckles fuse legs snap my blood is now sap. Limbs expand up and out leaves...
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Latest Works
Craig Kirchner
Mar 152 min
Schadenfreude
I, too, have been in the underworld like Odysseus, and shall be there often yet … - Friedrich Nietzsche Tripping into court Morality...
Marble Black
Mar 158 min
The Yellow House
We are a speck of dust on the Universe’s shelf. Everyone is dead or dying and if they aren’t, then they’re simply unaware. These are the...
Ralph Dranow
Mar 151 min
The Eyes of Hazrat Inayat Khan
His dark, penetrating eyes are gazing right at you, inviting you to connect, to be your true self, conscious and present. And at the same...
Marc A. Brimble
Mar 151 min
Call Me Dave
David Bowie came to me in a great big dream. I’d just finished talking with Salvador Dali, he’d been teaching me how to make a million by...
Lauren Elise Fisher
Mar 151 min
Book of Life
The parchment will eventually go thin / you’ll brush it gently and yet it’ll tear / there’s no cure for the impending age / forget any...
Ron Tobey
Mar 152 min
Driving West from White Sulphur Springs with Ralph Waldo Emerson
I drive west from White Sulphur Springs in my black and bruised 2005 Silverado model 2500 4x4 Heavy Duty up 7% grades hauls easily 20,000...
Cathy Joyce Lee
Mar 151 min
The Lighthouse
I breathe the cursed air haunted fog with spectral halos white horse waves roll at my feet tossing dead souls as a sacrifice I tried to...
Jacob Smith
Mar 152 min
The Trick
Upon his departure from his horrible, sinful life, he was not greeted by fire and brimstone. There was not light, there was not the...
Colette Des Georges
Mar 1511 min
The Particles of Existence
Danielle extended a long white leg into a long white stocking and watched without interest as servants hooked the delicate lace into...
Elvins Artiles
Mar 151 min
Good Friday and the Weekend
The end of life is a beautiful woman beside you; her yellow self cast forth from the yellow lamp: a buzzing papilio yellow-robed, red...
Tim McDonald
Mar 155 min
Middle Class Christmas
The hills of home were hewn with gray—gray, gray, gray—haunting gray. Their house stood silent, still, upon the hill—it never...
Gavin Hansen
Mar 155 min
The Sky
Rain slickened the cobbled steps up the long road to the professor's home. The home had stood on its mountain perch for over four hundred...
Lauren Elise Fisher
Mar 151 min
The River Brought the New Year
My toes curl into the sand on a New England shore / thousands of miles (even years) from another world. My ancestors lived by the moon,...
Lee Clark Zumpe
Mar 151 min
Down Parson’s Branch Road
Enticed by the soft pine-needle floor, I trace the ridgeline upon a whisper of a trail where the ghosts of Indigenous peoples chip arrow...
Rhys Lee Hamilton
Jan 2010 min
Peanut Butter
Gravel crunched beneath two pairs of dirty sneakers, filling the empty afternoon. A loud ping echoed over the field as a rock ricocheted...
Gershon Ben-Avraham
Jan 207 min
The Abyss
“And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil, IV, 146 A light touch...
J. David Liss
Jan 203 min
Red Delicious
He dreamed the red dream of blood falling in rivers from a cliff. He stood beneath, drinking it, knowing he would never be hungry again....
Ash Muzzillo
Jan 202 min
Esteemed Guest
I’ve had dreams of demons Visiting me under the velvet blanket of night— When most would wake With shivers of fear, These are the least...
Faith Allington
Jan 202 min
Nightfall
Abandoned for years, the red farmhouse became a landmark in my childhood, glimpsed from the school bus. It sits well back from the road...
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