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Ragged Faces

Douglas Forsythe, Poet, Columnist April 26, 2023

Weary ragged faces, souls not yet ready to embrace the day Boarding buses to which destinations unfold To down and uptown To town and city From Worcester to Boston Concord to Lowell Beaten...

Legacy

Timothy McLarney March 14, 2023

Dreams are your own.   Dreams are what others see you to be.   You seek the approval of others.   You seek the approval of yourself.   Ambition is a virtue. Ambition...

Mons

Timothy McLarney March 14, 2023

The standing hills stretch innumerable expanses,  braving scolding breezes and the woods’ perilous chances. The standing hills remain cruel and callous, indifferent to passerbys’ demise,...

flying hubris: an Icarus retelling

Erin Shetler March 7, 2023

I push off from the cliff towards the cerulean ocean bellow my father's revolutionary craft was tied to my flapping the warmth of Helios temps me to go higher so long we have been trapped, hidden away finally,...

droplets

Edna Bonsu February 16, 2023

on the car ride home  in the shadows of spring  i laid my head against the brisk window and the robins sang  my mother’s sweet voice hummed the words to a song i’ve heard a million times...

swing

Erin Shetler February 7, 2023

the breeze running through my hair just as I get closer to the ground I distance myself propelled in the opposite direction my control over my motion is limited I can lean back and forth, sure but...

Peaches

Douglas Forsythe, Poet, Columnist January 17, 2023

The reddish hue of its yellowed skin ran ripe with juice as the knife sank into the fresh peach. The juicy slash it made as it entered the fruit, each slice finely forming yet never fragmenting. Then,...

Pocketbook

Kristen Lopez-Ferreira, Poet December 3, 2022

A clean slate I just ruined it there are words scribbled on now sorry to the tree that turned into this   A tainted page with meaningless words scribbled on a place for me to...

a girl

Erin Shetler November 29, 2022

Welcome to the twenty-first century - where you feel like your cat catcall me Me, a stranger, to you, not an equal - Because all you see is a girl   You can’t see my life, the things I...

Forlorn Mountain Roads

Douglas Forsythe November 2, 2022

Driving through winding mountains roads A once a great connector of the nation Then the war ended   Then the nation cut through earth and rock Blasted mountains to valleys and coated rivers...

The Old Man

Kristen Lopez-Ferreira, Poet October 30, 2022

I'd never greet him in the mornings or acknowledge him at night, but whenever I was summoned, it'd always stir a fright.   The call was never urgent or dangerous whatsoever, but one...

strawberry girl

Erin Shetler June 13, 2022

Her eyes are a mid shade of blue-gray They bring with them the scene of the ocean on a foggy day The fog blocks most of the scenery But through it You can make out the blue waves As they...

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