Poetry

Can I keep you in my grasp? That’s all I’ll ask I bet you didn’t mention me in conversation You don’t understand it’s about our […]

The sweet scent of oranges still lingers on her lips, as the hot summer sun beams down on the patch of sunflower seedlings As sweet […]

Meeting held. Instructions done. Sent our structured way. We check them in and fill out forms. Yes . . . it’s testing day. I watch […]

I grasp light until palms lace with burns, Prints melt like wax, transforming into the unknown. Fingertips fail to remember how they traced darkness. I […]

The Little Things Can Go a Long Way A woman’s house gone and away On the streets is where she lays She lays down, looking […]

Anxiety I’m lost in my mind But I bottle it up Lock it away Not one word Nothing to say Can’t you see I’m dying […]

Short of Breath Sometimes I watch How your lungs fill And then deflate So gently And I wonder If you are always so peaceful Or […]

Help Her A smile that lasts only on the outside, and a pain that runs too deep. She desperately needs a lifeline, a smile that […]

Murky Waters I’m just a lost soul Trying to navigate my way through the murky waters of life I never expected to be here this […]

By Nydia Ramos, Editor in Chief                 We break each other for sport and leave the pieces on […]