by David Hay Two tears walk in stilettoes down the runway of my skin. Man’s grief is measureless. The dove white sky flows onwards like a heavenly river. My eyes are the mountains that…

by Sarp Sozdinler Fake Cormac limped along the highway and stopped at the first traffic lights. No one dwelled that road anymore, not even the border crossers, so he was the only person in…

by Rudy Civello Auld Granda John was sat in his chair reading his paper with his wee granddaughter Elsie next to him in her cot. A wee angel, he thought, as he leaned over…

By Gianluca Cameron To fructify the sanctum To Abaddon the salad We cut ourselves on fascist truths Hashtag yum Appalachian cornbread cloud Cad our chose the flare Flea appointment organic Ister mechanical annus Flench…

by Steve Gergley On Canada Day, my wife and I performed a play on our front lawn. We wrote the play last fall, taking turns scribbling esoteric lines of dialogue each night within the…

by Simon Collinson Of course I am, because I’m afraid of everything, especially at night. People ask, what do you fear and I reply everything, I’m afraid of everything This fear of fear is…

by Trevor Jones Sigh the explosion, someone said.  The drought is over, its raining again, and before it turns all to flood in the famous whiplash of weather, climate-changed, what a feeling: When I…

by Ron Arbuckle Heat advisory on the books The municipal pool is, until further notice, shut down With water boiling beneath chlorine clouds Kids with a BMI over 32 cook like lobsters Picked apart…

By Maximiliano Guzmán    I’m the only one in the neighborhood who came to this Cheese Day party. Is it because I’m the only one who doesn’t care about what’s happened these past few…