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Category: Poetry

Noises and PTSD

June 2, 2016October 5, 2018 DMG Byrnes

There’s a rhythmic booming sound It’s a fist banging against at a door while someone cowers in the corner of the room on the other side Hoping the lock will hold as the wood shivers with the pounding… No, he assures me, it’s just some hammering or someone on the Read more

Featured, PoetryDMG Byrnes, mental illness, poetry2 Comments

What It Was Worth

June 2, 2016October 5, 2018 Catherine Zickgraf

For a while, I follow your blue eyes glowing off the stereo, then tuck myself into you, inhaling your smell, remembering our summer in my four-poster bed.  You wrapped me in your robe, we passed joints in the sunlight of my bathtub. At night, you laid your muscle under my pillow. Read more

Featured, PoetryCatherine Zickgraf, poetry, relationships1 Comment

UnLoveAble

May 31, 2016October 5, 2018 Julie Anderson

Don’t hold my hand. Never hug me, kiss me or tell me that you love me. Always say things that stab my heart. That is the way it should be. What you feel is more important than my thoughts, so please continue to speak over me. Every mistake I have Read more

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Going Away

May 26, 2016October 5, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

Elaina didn’t cry not until she was alone behind walls. Elaina didn’t cry not until she knew she was going away. Too much in a bottle like hurricane bubbling inside closed glass. Brittle pieces cut hard droplets of blood through skin. Never mind. Kettle burning she takes a mitten boils Read more

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Red Memories

May 26, 2016October 5, 2018 Tiffani Burnett-Velez

Once upon a time, there was Moscow, and she was big, and she was red and she was covered tight, all locked up in her high tower. But she grew tired of this and she blew the tower up and let her hair down, and now everyone drives a BMW. Read more

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Stuck Inside

May 24, 2016October 5, 2018 H.M. Jones

Moan you in,
push you out
of my confidence.
Feel you swell
under my imagination;
you are unreal,
my perfect creation.

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Mute

May 24, 2016October 5, 2018 Julie Anderson

All eyes, you watched. Noting the carnage, foibles and hypocrisy around you, You heard the lies that hid underneath the frosting on your birthday cake. You knew the truth that parents denied. You watched. You listened. You never forgot. You did not forgive. Segregation controlled the insane, you said. Boarding Read more

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Recovery Means New Scars

May 19, 2016October 5, 2018 Kelly Wilson

The path of recovery is quicksand, my cement feet drag legs strain fingers of the past pull me back grab my legs clutch at the folds of my pants and the tail of my shirt. I stumble forward falling grazing my cheek and palms, scraping my knees on my recovery Read more

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