Winter
2025

Bag Lady

Bag lady, I know your shoulders are weighed down from weight of the world residing inside your bags— Pain Discrimination Racial profiling Heartache Low self-esteem... The stitching is coming apart… Read More

Healing, healing

Healing, healing is something we all must do. if it’s for a sinking heart, or grief, maybe self reflection? I too, want to heal the inner child that is crying… Read More

The world is coming to an end 

The world always feels like its ending  I have to be everywhere at once and everything feels impossible  I am unprepared, a mess, and am rushing at all times  I… Read More

Deir Al-Baleh

Benjamin eats burning tents for breakfast.  Smoldering and braided with decay.  Soaked in the oxidized blood of children.  His arteries are clogged with melted I.V. lines and the last breaths… Read More

kim d. hunter: when

when you blame yourself for bills and bad actors that flood your living space on the regular, that seep through holes in your pocket as the robots of repossession block… Read More

Laura Bailey Brandon: Island

For thousands of years you were a sacred place to the Anisshanabee.  A marshy peninsula hugged by the clear waters of a mighty river.  An entry point for those passing… Read More

Tawana Petty: Alchemizing Violence 

Purveyors of violence  Do not goad us into peace  They distribute ammunition In biometric vending machines They coerce cult retribution Erode all sensibilities Oblivious to the Frankensteins Alchemized inside their… Read More