'Communal Changing' by Marilyn Francis

Communal Changing Urban shepherdesses of SW3(too genteel for country matters)try on flower-print smocksin the changing roomsof Laura Ashley. The glare of the lights in the room full of mirrorsdoes not spare their bare flesh, but they don’t carethey are too...

Three haiku from Matthew King

RepercussionsA fish on a hookA man in a sludge-filled creekHave we all been caught?Health care debateWhat an idiotFlag wavers scream and hollerA white tea partyLooking UpVying for powerA Steeple and MinaretGod can’t help but laugh*Matthew King is a soon-to-be graduate...

Chris Hardy's 'Parable'

ParableA man flat on his backon the pavement,arms and legs spread,eyes shut, still.When things like thisoccur I don’t actindifferent,I am indifferent.I look and walkquickly away.I don’t want to interferein his parable,or let him interferein mine.*Chris Hardy has been...

Jonathan D Rodgers' 'Acorn'

Acorn  “I’m leaving you.” Dirk sighed and blasted Candy through the bedroom window.  An under-reaction perhaps, but there’d been Cherry all along  until  of-course they’d tickled her tonsils  with the barrel of a Kalashnikov.  Now both...

A prose poem from Jim Bennet

this is where I am and  how I believed it would be it is dark except for the glow from the computer screens somehow want them to project the shifting lines of numbers onto the walls across the notice boards and reflect off the eyes of the watching students to...