Emmie Christie
Gift of the Fey
Tira plucked the sethel flower off the stem and sucked the starlight from it. It hinted at sweetness, teasing like the moon on this...
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Latest Works
Benjamin Parker
- May 17
- 1 min
An Age of Progress
The traditions recycled and passed down on an earth that forever stood still. An essence diluted to the dusty remains of some forgotten...
C.J. Lane
- May 17
- 1 min
The Emerald Tablet: A Cut-up Poem
The holy speech, that which is Divine Spirit, the embodied Logos, is immortal. All of nature in paragraph, as indeed the secret song of...
Zary Fekete
- May 17
- 14 min
Lidérc
The two holy men traveled by day, each of them on their own mule, riding slowly through the grass, until they came to the cabin in the...
Isabella Frederick
- Mar 16
- 11 min
Anthemusa
Part I: Their ship wasn't meant for oars, but they brought them above deck anyway. They tied the sails down, securing them with ropes to...
Abbie Hart
- Mar 15
- 1 min
helen of troy as my great grandmother
she boiled rocks, you know on the stove to get rid of the spirits. an image of an elderly helen of troy one that did not disappear with...
S.T. Gillard
- Mar 15
- 4 min
Calamaro Grande
Ripples in the canals are the only warning you get. They’re also the last thing most people see. When feeding starts, you’d better hope...
Venus Fung
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Babylon
Hanging Babylon, fig trees of dream—uncut oasis, liquor of sun. Perfect Babylon: a sceptre, ailing queen, a gospel of hoaxes preachers...
Meredith Brown
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Dionysus
I pray to Dionysus— begging him to walk me through his vineyard Asking him to sew me to his thigh and make me twice-born too I fear he is...
Ron Tobey
- Mar 15
- 2 min
On Viewing 'Winged Victory of Samothrace' at Musée du Louvre
Magnificent Niké alights upon a plinth of stones her huge wings of blue the wrapped mantle of fine linen around her legs hemmed in blue...
Lauren Elise Fisher
- Mar 15
- 1 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 15
- 1 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...
J. David Liss
- Jan 20
- 3 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....
Finnbar Howell
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Hyperion
“What is your name?” I finally asked on that cold and hopeless morning, as we stood naked on the hilltop, knowing we were irredeemable....
Rick Hartwell
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Her Faerie Garden
Both are watered together, Faux-foliage and living plants, A mixture blessed by my spouse. Dampened in the early morning sun, Facets from...
Jordan Davidson
- Jan 20
- 1 min
(twelve)
Twelve of us dropped our pale feet against the ground on your orders thinking between the lines of a silk edged rope that perhaps despite...
Michael Fowler
- Jan 20
- 10 min
The Two-Fingered Juggler, or Gratitude
When the deity visited our city, the Cleanliness Corps swept the streets clean of wretched has-beens like me lest the sojourning god be...
Jared T. Wilkerson
- Jan 20
- 1 min
His Sword Shone Brightly
His sword shone brightly, as I drew my own. May God forgive me. I had never fought one, so bold, and so knightly who held the throne. His...
J. J. Sherman
- Jan 20
- 7 min
Lagnogard Awaits
Lagnogard, balancing on her scaly tail atop one of the many sandstones jutting from the beach, stretched out each of her stubby green...
Kelly Winget
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Of Gods and Monsters
Maybe we were better off When gods and monsters walked among us. When evil walked the world, But we knew it when we saw it. And the...
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