Verbal Countries
          by Ernesto Priego

I don't write poesía en español
because I have stopped believing in origins.

I try, instead, to look for futures I obviously don't have.
Verb tenses not yet invented, dreams deferred for too long,
Infinitives as usual not completed and not yet began,
A glass of whiskey over a red bilingual dictionary.

Even if ( Read more... )

YOU ARE THINKING
       by Mike Meraz

you are thinking
of all those you loved
and how they all went away
bombs hit beside you
buildings crash
hell seems only a minute away
life is a roller coaster
a tight rope
a thread
a needle in a hay stack
you cant find
but have spend your whole life looking for
everyone seems to be no one.
no one seems to be everywhere.
there ( Read more... )

Legend with Sea Breeze
| Tess GallagherWhen you died I wanted at least to ring ( Read more... )

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nevermind, myspace just hates me

so, because i am supremely talented, i dropped my phone in the toilet last night and now it's totally fried ( Read more... )

How It Will Happen, When
- Dorianne LauxThere you are, exhausted from a night of crying, curled up on the couch ( Read more... )

i don't know why i didnt update more frequently over the past two and a half years when i should have been writing down every precious moment with Spencer... so i wouldn't lose the little things to the passage of time and the fickleness of memory.

please, those who knew him. send me your memories - your favorites, your clearest.

help me keep him

IF ( Read more... )

i want to write more than anything, but i'm completely drawing a blank on story ideas.

feel free to leave any suggestions you may have, and are willing to donate.