Soliloquy of a Soul Fabiyas M V I feel I’m everywhere, free and wispy. I find love and loss in the wet eyes. How long will I linger in your hearts? Strange were my dreams in the final earthly phase; the unknown lands and the divine vibes. How fast the body […]
Sip of Hope Marion Horton Lips close to mouth purse. Another sip. Swirl and with a gold rim glint flip, chink, be upturned. Practiced. Learned. Black dots of ravens cursing. Owls screeching. Rising from the honeyed base. Spreading omens – last of breaths. Countless deaths. Silent clothes – no jangly, beady. Greasy […]
S.A.D Anne Savage The 21st or thereabouts it starts; when everyone’s alight or wrapped and giving. My life Gurgling like a strangled straw when the drink runs out Shrinks down and out as light Spins into empty. A few grey hours every day, Darkness laughing from the edges chews and bites a little more […]
Mrs Robinson Ellie Piddington In his den she smokes two of his Havana cigars onto the run, cracks open a bottle of Bourbon, leaves the Pearsons’ Alsatian thrusting at the cushions. ‘Please,’ she’d said to Benjamin. ‘Please,’ she’d said again. Arms folded firmly across her chest standing in the tall grasses, like […]