Most read stories

Bands, Again?

12921292 views44 comments11 fav

Monkey Business Low Ceiling Wagging Tongues Guest Sweet Murphy’s Law Kinda Hot Stopit! Freedom Ring Lumpy Oatmeal Better Not Butter Up Grumpy Umpire

Bitter the Sun When It Is in Hades

12921292 views55 comments00 favs

Bitter the sun when it is in Hades High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down but the nitre keeps burning So glows the gloss and high sheen on the skin Foreheads exhibit thought though the eyes are crossed and at night, butterflies i

Finite

12911291 views33 comments11 fav

This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.

The Judge's Wife Part 7

12911291 views77 comments44 favs

—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.

Bitter About Pay, Poet Laureate Strikes Catty Tone

12911291 views11 comment00 favs

Duffy struck an adversarial tone from the outset, offering up a first poem about improper expenses submitted by members of Parliament that ruffled feathers across party lines.

On A Carport in Bethlehem

12911291 views66 comments55 favs

I can hear soft rain

Five Million Yen: Chapter 63

12911291 views22 comments11 fav

Gringovitch sat on the big leather chair in Olivia’s suite. Before him on a coffee table were the nude sketches he’d made of her earlier that day.

Five Acts

12911291 views55 comments55 favs

The television was playing reruns of Mr. Ed, but it was hard to hear because of the flock of birds in the palm tree. I’d sometimes imagined the birds coming through the window, a swarming of pink cotton mouths, mawing everything in sight.

Music

12911291 views1111 comments99 favs

Five micros

ROMANCE

12911291 views55 comments33 favs

In the neon light and barroom shadows,

Shuffle

12911291 views11 comment00 favs

Something is clearly wrong with them and we're supposed to socialize them.

His Bus

12911291 views00 comments00 favs

He'd always considered it his bus.

Proud Mary

12911291 views11 comment00 favs

Mary had no shoes. She told me they were stolen by someone at the shelter and I believed her because she stood there outside the Arlington T stop in a pair of tube socks. She told me she wasn't asking for money. She told me the shelter was serving seafood today so her…

AUTUMN LEAVES UNDERFOOT

12911291 views33 comments00 favs

Goodbye comes in stages. At first you recognize that you will “miss” someone when they are gone. Then you have to accept the fact that they are leaving. And finally accept the fact that they are gone; and not particularly in that order. If only it

Never Catch Me Alive

12911291 views00 comments00 favs

We walk with our heads down, maybe 15 of us, moving under a sun that has grown to encompass everything. Everything is in hues of orange and red like a bloody eyeball on fire.

Shouting the Muse Down

12911291 views00 comments00 favs

In the tumbled-down now there's too much material, culled from pretty boys that don't notice me and tattooed ones that do, and I'm certain there's at least one dreamer soaking eyes into me who knows all the twisted lyrics invoking pretty little horses.

Skunks

12901290 views1313 comments66 favs

I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.

Beggars Banquet

12901290 views11 comment00 favs

When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.

A Rave for "How the Sixties Ended"

12901290 views44 comments00 favs

"At a bare minimum it deserves to be a major cult hit."

For One Group of Boys, Donated Cars Mean a Way Out

12901290 views00 comments00 favs

The glamour of living in the Rebuilt Engine Capital of the World is meaningless to the young boys who roam its crowded streets after school, desperately looking for something to take their minds off their homework.

What It Took To Be God

12901290 views55 comments33 favs

They borrowed birds from the trees And forced me to sing along with them You could say they made my heart burn But we all know some of that was fake It was a direct route From sleep walking To sleep shopping To this I guess I lived a

writing in loops

12901290 views00 comments00 favs

Antique pens better allow an old soul to express what needs expressing.

Women of God

12901290 views22 comments22 favs

I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...

Wordswhisperlove

12901290 views55 comments33 favs

His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the wick of a pretty little candle.

Morning Love Song

12901290 views00 comments00 favs

when I said good morning I meant

All God's Children

12901290 views22 comments22 favs

Momma wakes us up early while Daddy's still asleep, pulls out white poster boards, markers from the closet, and together, we draw babies...

Coalheart

12901290 views11 comment11 fav

He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.

An Interview With Pere Ubu

12901290 views11 comment11 fav

Performed October 21-22, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Mass. Kathy-Ann Hart, the Hostess; Ryan Wenke, Ubu; Tyler Catanella, Alfred Jarry; the author--technician.

Bean Bag Chair

12901290 views44 comments22 favs

Up to the loft we went, shedding clothes all the way. No one is home, but the place smells like the fresh cookies my mom had made before she left. It's dark and my lips hit his…

Native to Afghanistan

12901290 views44 comments33 favs

Your father's remembrance and memorial would be inappropriate for me to attend. never mind the truth the searing…