Two Poems by Jeffrey Banks
I Want Better
I want better.
I find this double mindedness debilitatingAnd I am hating the outcomes that I see
I want to flee from realityBecause of the way the...
Two Poems by Kevin Wiggins
Can I Borrow Your Iniquities?
If you don’t mind
Can I borrow your iniquities?
Since my sins are so much greater and heaven has no room forme - could you...
Two Poems by Laura McCarty
The Home We Will Remember
I am born in the black hills of eastern Kentucky
to a young woman...
Two Poems by Mecca Verdell
My little sister is beautiful.She has our father’s eyes, brown.Her mother’s skin—light, blinding.
Something in her skin draws meand I look like a confused scribble,a Black mask, in...
Three Poems by Chloe Yelena Miller
Mid-Thirties
Toddler, pigtails loosening,hides behind her mother’s legs,two tiny hands around one adult knee.Mother leans down,whispers in her daughter’s ear.Child smiles,tilts her head to one side,knee-grip loosens.
I, too,...