Most discussed stories

No Dirt In Common

17191719 views1010 comments44 favs

I feel a strange loneliness for her...I think I will go to the beach, and forgive it for its sharp sand and lack of trees.

Don't move

12771277 views1010 comments77 favs

The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting

The Laughing Grave

15391539 views1010 comments77 favs

Newhouse returned his gaze to his wet palm, which he lifted to his nose with suspicion, sniffed again and again, then struggled to move out from under the growing stream.

Zum is one instance of "um" herein

11091109 views1010 comments66 favs

Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments

With Respect to a Fellow Poet

10671067 views1010 comments66 favs

We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.

Thumbing For a Ride

12201220 views1010 comments66 favs

Here comes my speed dealer he's riding shotgun in the open

How I Left Onandaga County

15631563 views1010 comments44 favs

So, like I said. Da. I have dealt with the men, when I was a lap dancer. The men they need the….manipulations. I have good hands. They want me to see them naked, their power. Here it is only the women. The massage, the facial, the waxing...

Camp #7

11011101 views1010 comments33 favs

One afternoon the kids from next door come over. Marion is our age, Jimmy a year younger. Marion's pretty. I can't even look at her.

Falcon Street

18551855 views1010 comments99 favs

Marcy is two years older and got her period the summer before me. She thinks she’s a professor of everything, but she’s my best friend so I don’t say she’s being stupid or that her tangerine lipstick is smeared across her front teeth.

City Crossing

18091809 views1010 comments66 favs

Maybe we all met, somewhere, in between streets.

Woman at the Bar

11181118 views1010 comments11 fav

I saw a woman / at the bar tonight

Best Place To Eat in Town

11611161 views1010 comments33 favs

Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.

Summer's smack

951951 views1010 comments77 favs

clouds clot the horizon all day

marc bolan

12371237 views1010 comments44 favs

marc bolan mind rolling

The Night We Saw Shehenshah

18381838 views1010 comments55 favs

‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.

Poem to My New Lover, All for Free

13931393 views1010 comments44 favs

Come, bring your sadness to the precipice of my body, bury it within me like a tool

If only one more thing

11671167 views1010 comments55 favs

If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say

Wounds

11721172 views1010 comments44 favs

Every day, a fresh new/ strain of Hell reveals itself

needs

13171317 views1010 comments55 favs

addict for validation and cat tongues

Fealty

12621262 views1010 comments77 favs

I wander toward the midnight dock a neon sine curve stabs my eyes

Sands In Time by Julie Noble

19321932 views1010 comments55 favs

Sands In Time by Julie Noble As surreptitious as the crab creeping sideways under your patient observation, the sun has inched its way round the sky, echoing exactly the rugged curve of the Bay, and is now preparing itself for the evening slide. In its rich,…

Call to Arms

10551055 views1010 comments88 favs

I call upon all cashiers in dungarees... I call upon the baristas in rags... I call upon those whose sinister principles tax the weakness of their conscience... I call upon all those deracinated by dreaming big...

Silenced

848848 views1010 comments55 favs

Into the silence

Free Space

16941694 views1010 comments99 favs

The winner was some kid from Ohio or Oklahoma -- one of those states that begins with an "O" and ends with a yawn.

Seasonals

14331433 views1010 comments44 favs

Jasmine as skeined skins… of liquid hers, by willow courts, the lychee's water wains: as apple-moats flush fawn in russet light, through cherry floats, the leopard-dots of dawn. Branch to branchlet green …

Things to Do while Waiting for the Toaster

12891289 views1010 comments77 favs

For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.

Moon Talk

12911291 views1010 comments55 favs

moonbeams unrecognized language steadies my course

Chasing the “Z” words

12581258 views1010 comments33 favs

It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.

Shots Below the Brow

818818 views1010 comments77 favs

His self-assurance says/ he’s practiced in the art/ of self-deception

Snow in the Sandias

13081308 views1010 comments55 favs

If there was a God he was deaf in both ears, blind in both eyes and dumb.