lofty golden goals
lay down to rest
to stay
after taken tolls
after time
after soot settled shame
nothing else remains
“Empty Amber” by Meaghan Merrifiend
Artwork by James Kirwan
Tag: poem
Frail Folds
silly self
involved
destructive
rests within walls that wind in
curves that roll
crumble where the body begins
folds wail as they wilt
frivolous and frail
words limp out of lips
chewed
chapped
stale
Artwork by Rick Stoller
Inadequate Me
I am left
to steep
in the vast sea
of my inadequacies
“Inadequate Me” by Meaghan Merrifield
Artwork by Wharton
Monstrous Me
sun sucked skin
radiates red
under-toe
rusty rivers
intemperate
in a short lived sleep
slowly flow
lukewarm in a mellow must
head full of heavy hair
hisses
snaps
haughtily heaves
whips through wet sheets
revels
in riling the rowdy
the deceit
“‘Monstrous Me” by Meaghan Merrifield
Artwork by Javier Piñón
The Mean Scars of Summer
our bruised and battered sky
weeps–
suspended
in scars
from the passionate strikes of
a relentless summer heat.
She
is all that remains of a day
too cruel to be unseen.
“Marked” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse
Artwork: “Brain Ticket” by Richard Vergez
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The Cure
days after
that faint burn
of pleasant Green swirls into
her lungs–
She is chilled by
a blood-tangled emptiness
That pulls her
into lost weeks
where she is
a crumpled lump
soaking
in her own foul water
“Nothing Stays Away” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse
Artwork: “Triform” by Cassidy Rae Limbach
She’s Done
I feel the dull but insistent teeth of your dinner fork
tugging at moth holes
in my sun dress
asking for me to be more bare
for you
more raw
for you
and so I let them needle away
until the threads are unknotted
and the cloth falls to the floor, and
I am
all that you want me to be
“Your Toy” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse
Artwork: “Sleep When You Die” by Kieran Sperring
Cry of the Wicked
Folded up
in this wrath that
flows like
a river from my lonely gut,
is a purple wound–
unhealed–
that cries and cowers with your children,
pleading for the pain
to die.
“In Me” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse
Artwork: “She” by Steven Quinn
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