A New Kind of Literary Pulse

I desire
to determine devil from deity
People don't act with dignity
and I can't ...  [+]

An essential worker,
that’s what I’ve become
Amidst in COVID
Skyrockets to the sun
No ...  [+]

He loved her
in her snowy white,
blue eyes, bridal flowers,
and 80s hair. That hair, ...  [+]

I never understood those lines about the naked woman on the roof:
roofs are already perfectly ...  [+]

the water slips across my feet
like a blanket.

they held my hand,
protecting me from ...  [+]

Observation: the freckles that map her body are as limitless as the stars in the night sky ...  [+]

loved to read, yet I always have been ripped from the pages-
choosing oblivious eyes without a ...  [+]

Get up
You try so hard to ignore it
The whisper in your head
Because you know if you heed ...  [+]

My father hands me a small box when I arrive for Thanksgiving break. It is from my grandmothe ...  [+]

Pain never lasts,
Wounds cannot stay--
Only as fading white lines of memory--
All is ...  [+]

Just a winter working night,
Away from the city, away from the light
For sixty years, working ...  [+]

I walked with you
down darkening stair
and spoke of the Great Edge,
Where heroes lay down ...  [+]

A battle fought, a triumph earned
cost much, for though the tide has turned,
so many here have ...  [+]

Tarry here a tad
under a sky lavender and blue.
Sit with me, says the day.
I aim not to know ...  [+]

To laugh in the face of death
Means to process the fact that
Someone else is gone
And you ...  [+]

Sometimes people forget
We are on the same side,
We fight each other
Instead of the ...  [+]

The snowflakes of my unbound, unconscious imagination
swirl in oblivious spirals around me ...  [+]

A whisping shell of what’s genuine
Never as is but as projected
A blur of material things ...  [+]