My obligations pile up faster than I can deal with them, and I don’t know what I’m going to do. Although I don’t sweat, I can feel my hot spots revving into high gear. My pulse is racing, and I want either a mud bath or a huge bunch of bananas. You can’t fight instinct sometimes. Personal comfort has to Read More
Author: Andre
Sin Within
by Rickey Rivers Jr. A shower every hour to wash the skin I’m in.To wash away the sin I’m in, to wash off the sin within. Nightmares wake me.Air inhaled cinnamon. I can’t apologize for other men who sin.Just for myself and all that I hold in. Hot water washes it away, helps me see another day. Vividly, with red Read More
An Indigenous Halloween
by River Rivers “You could dress as American Eagle for Halloween!” The Dad told his Son. “He’s Native like us!” “Never heard of him?” “How about Warpath?” “I don’t like the name.” “How about Red Wolf?” “Nah, that outfit is too much like a cowboy.” “What Native superhero do you want to be then?” “None. I think I’ll just be Read More
you can tell me i’m wrong
by Linda M. Crate i will not bowsuppose i am not the perfect incantationof female they seeki am too fierce and wildrefusing to be tamedi want to be appreciated foreverything i amnot forced to change for the sake of anyone,who are they to demand thatfrom me?i am who i amand they are but men not gods,never will i surrender to Read More
From the Editor – 8/29/19
My dear people and pachyderms, this is Editor Andre N. Lepine. I write to say hello and thank you. Just over a year ago, we published Linda M. Crate’s sometimes ravens conquer wolves, the first work by someone other than me to appear on this site. To honor our first year as a broader publication, I would like to talk Read More
all i’m thinking about
by Paul Robert Mullen the trees in huckleberry grove were bending touching their toes in the gustsso we drove down to the coast where boatsbobbed drunk in the stormand waves curled like hands scraping back the sand who’d have known that laterwhen clouds were sucked into science-fictionelectric white we would be saton benches / walking through pathways where birds singresting Read More
Old Journals in the Attic
by Karen Shepherd Through open doors, a waft has found an in,an entry point, a path to hidden roomsabandoned years ago. The air, so stale,holds sleeping ghosts that hang from ceiling beamsadorned with words and webs and dried bouquets.It’s not the breeze that makes them gently sway.A restlessness has been here, waiting. Lightwas needed to be shed, to break the Read More
Broken Thoughts
by Robin Ray Broken thoughts, spiraled conflicts,marriages sealed by shotgun flares, stiletto banjoes. These shoulders are trampolines. Strike and be stricken,the tallyman says. [The future might be brighter than I thought after all.] Celeste, I can’t find my slippers anymore, and there’s a boy outside, said he remembers you from a chalet in Aspen. Didn’t tip Read More
Best of the Net 2019 Nominations
Today we announce our Best of the Net 2019 Nominations. For those unfamiliar, Sundress Publications produces an annual Best of the Net Anthology to showcase online work. Submissions for the anthology, however, must come from the online publication that first shared the work online. In addition, for the 2019 anthology, the work must have appeared between July 1, 2018 and Read More
why
by Paul Robert Mullen doyou make somethingthat should feel like lovefeel like war? stretched across vast continentsmy iPhone vibrates as cities rock back and forthlike babiesin the palms of mountain ranges Paul Robert Mullen is a poet, musician and sociable loner from Liverpool, U.K. He has three published poetry collections: curse this blue raincoat (2017), testimony (2018), and Read More