Category Archives: Twenty-First Century

By Anne Taylor

That it’s hard not to take it personally when people avoid you like the plague.
That a word, or a smile, or saying hello with your eyes can make all the difference.

By Jessica Jost-Costanzo

They are just little white marks on the scan,
and they are floating shapes
that make me think of clouds—
clouds that look like funny things,
cute things.

By Tina Cole

I am a dot on the face
of this page
a white wilderness diary
boxed in by
dates with no purpose
it is new year in May
it is new year in June
the page edges
boundary a redundancy

By Molly Headley

tomber / pas de bourrée / glissade / jeté
fall down / stumble like a drunk / glide/ throw it away

By María Castro Domínguez

I dreamt you were the only one
in your house,
a few months after that I saw
all the world
and all its people laughing,
a party was going on
in a fast food restaurant a birthday cake
was divided into portions,
there was more than enough
for everyone.

By Kerri Simpson

Fire asserted its destructive
power. Rivers choked.
Mankind prayed. Forgive
us our reckless ways. Rain
came. Cathartic tears
to wash away the flame
and extinguish our fears.

By Linda Cosgriff

How do you count the cost
of the worldwide Covid-19 toll?
Begin digging the first hole.

By Rani Drew

The Globe is vibrating with the Coronavirus.
Has there ever been such a threat to human life?
Yet now unseen and unknown it is overtaking the planet.

By Amanda Addison

stuck
we’re stuck in this place,
this time

By Wallace Lane

I do not
need to hear the world is ending
to know that the thrill of something good
is no more.