THE ARTS

POETRY & PROSE

188 pieces

All DESIGN FILM & TV MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY POETRY & PROSE
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Weed
I. I’m a weed trying to be a flower. An envious shadow surrounded by loveliness. How I wish to be, to be…
BEENA LAD
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
PISTOLS, STAMENS, AND SPIKES
“The only way is to hug the cactus.” Her inebriated lips casually spill over his black denim-ed lap. “I guess this means…
HOKIS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
feral
my fear is a feral wolf...
CHEYENNE ASHE
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
A Sapling’s Tears
I carry an anthology in today’s everything bag. I pull it out while waiting for the next thing: coffee, the nurse to…
HOKIS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
i am here to take up space
I have had good guys speak over me I have had bad guys speak over me I have been dismissed by professors…
CHEYENNE ASHE
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Garden Gulp
parched, screaming and digging against the push you take a pretty hard sip to self the leaves lips dry, wide  water it,…
GINA ATANASOFF
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Silent Breakfast To Go
Whiskey sour. Whiskey sweet.  Wisk her heart. Beat her  Eggs into an om Lette her devour it From a thirstless hunger. You know…
HOKIS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Nine Crows and The Godavari
Monsoons seize the trees of palm Clouds stand not alone behind the red curtain sun I swim with the black widowed crows…
PRATHIGNA YERAKALA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Necessary Friends
you’re at a lunch party, talking lessforking a bruschetta, careful not to make a messthinking of a cheeseburger, of the galaxies and…
ALIZAH HASHMI
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
TICKLING CATASTROPHE
image from 1944 film Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer,  source: “What Does Gaslight Even Mean?“ __ can I stop by?I need…
HOKIS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Kintsugi & T(h)ea
I find our tribal human mind will always fight against the heart, missing the soul of the matter at hand. Unless the…
HOKIS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
they tell a story
The scars on her body They all tell a story For she had been ridden of freedom To speak, to laugh, to…
ANEESHA SARAN

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