Linley Munson, Chrysalis

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

You confine me in shadow, obscure my vision,Let terror wash over meI try to stretch my limbs, yearning for freedom,To reveal myself to the worldIt doesn’t work; I am bound…

lyrikal777, something

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

mystify then ,emerge and render something beautiful .escape this presentobscure conundrum .shift .this is not home .bound to figure it out .tomorrow i carvewith the details of this very thought…

Joe Milazzo, Laughing Stock

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

The terror of the average still life lies in its sugary shining. Those yokel apples, as obvious as labor. The pears that stretch the dawn until its warp rips to…

Kari Lynch, Communion

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

I used to love a boy who could render fat from any source until shining, liquid gold would emergehissing the hymn of its soul but bound my mouth to muted…

Debra Levy-Fritts, Origin Stories

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

“Hang onto my faith until yours comes back,” she said I grew up thinking, in my one hand, nothingness, dust,the other, everything, shining, a universe as glove, essentially, tho’ a…

Paul Koniecki, curiosity for the dead

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

thirty muted lines on fire we are the words we choose outsiders emerge aloud and pound against the terrible membrane of source details – terror light the pyrerender moonset and…

Christine Irving, The Red Tent

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

When they carve the womb from your body it leaves a hole in your psyche. That the absence of an obsolete organ could crush a woman’s spirit is bound to…

Michael Helsem, Analog Cum Gnome

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

Almost to the top of houses, shiningwater spreads, to no man’s order bound;a figure in a kayak, too, is present. Deep clouds mystify with their intentionsall day long, this road…

Alan Gann, Grieving Mary Oliver

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

Lookeven as shadow falls awayI cannot escape the crush, paralytic weight of your absence. Remember when rain would not stop and the brook could not contain the terror, when field…

Steven Duncan, Dark Flowers

By Writers Garret | April 25, 2019

a shining terrorwill emerge and stretch, pass muted shadowover sunken gorge figure after figurerising in the night,a field of dark flowersbound up under ice now from a slow thawthey shift,…

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