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youth blew me a kiss
and a moment that had earth-brown eyes closed. and a million years is still shallow. and tomorrow is nothing. was god going to look out...

Bethany Stimac
May 1, 20231 min read


songs from the quivering morning
atoms in the riverbed stones move minisculely, they are modest mice making vibrations of small magnitude. come and see, come and see...

Toby Gordon
May 1, 20231 min read


forty winks
and spring, i feel, is something of a certainty. winter had come, but i saw no snow. what is there, really, if one’s “destined to know?”...

Bethany Stimac
Apr 10, 20231 min read


A dandelion in a field of poppies
She was once, a tiny bud. Waiting to flourish, and become a blossoming flower. As she sprouted, her petals grew. Her beauty became...

Kenzie Pajinag
Apr 10, 20231 min read


The beauty of “I’m Sure.”
It’s a delicacy, isn’t it? The calm in knowing, In surrendering to that demanding ache in your bones. I say it over and over in the...

Parker Press
Mar 27, 20231 min read


Locking Eyes
There's a certain silence, when two eyes lock. Sometimes, It's filled with hatred. Sometimes, It's filled with sadness. Happiness once...

Kenzie Pajinag
Mar 6, 20231 min read


within and without
the humdrum of talk buzzes around white tables dressed neatly in silverware and noone, it seems, sees another right now all eyes are but...

Bethany Stimac
Mar 6, 20231 min read


Pleasant
You forget how the clouds enthralled you. How the wind kept you guessing which little part of you might get caught in its hands and taken...

Toby Gordon
Mar 6, 20231 min read


wear your knee-hats
so this is your pathetic perception of me? i laugh, under-wraps, at your silly retreats this life is a hat that i wear on my knee i’m...

Bethany Stimac
Mar 6, 20231 min read


Good Enough
I will never be good enough. How often does that lie echo in your brain? Even when your friends make mistaKes, You love them all the...

Parker Press
Feb 20, 20231 min read


Picture Perfect Polaroid
Picture Perfect Polaroid With its glossy white frames Memories are captured much to a match striking flame Shutter and flashes There’s a...

Parker Press
Feb 20, 20231 min read


Who?
I love you And by you I mean us And by us I mean everything When you stare back with the ethereal eyes of an angelic angel My heart...

Parker Press
Feb 20, 20231 min read


The Taste of Regret
The taste of regret lingers on your tongue. Slimy and slick, like milk gone sour. Side effects can last for hours and hours. It can make...

Parker Press
Feb 20, 20231 min read


I Try: A Poem for Valentine's Day
In the night when I close my eyes, every morning when I rise, you’re the first thing on my mind. I try and I try, but your smile gets me...

Parker Press
Feb 6, 20231 min read


ardor for a star
about to descend from the kitchen into my dark, bedroom burrow but you interrupt me, softly by catching my eye. dripping through the...

Bethany Stimac
Jan 23, 20231 min read


everyone else
It’s hard to see the good in myself. When I can go anywhere, and everyone is better.

Kenzie Pajinag
Jan 9, 20231 min read


suppose the heavens laugh at you
for those few moments he was a kid and a grown man and had just laughed before death caught him unaware

Bethany Stimac
Jan 9, 20231 min read


Six Thousand Eyed Insect
The waist-high trees are captive in the hands of the wind, bending their barky backs so their canopy tickles the roots too big to stay...

Toby Gordon
Jan 9, 20231 min read


pretty little premise
look at me, a liberty, liquid-like and “open-minded” i’ll pool around their knees, take a shower (not half-sighted!) but i go sour like a...

Bethany Stimac
Dec 5, 20221 min read


reflecting my mortality while eating mac & cheese
take another cheesy bite i see this noodle as my life come to please the twitching tongue of death, who’s oddly dining with god again and...

Bethany Stimac
Nov 21, 20221 min read
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