Writings / Poetry

Heart's warning (for Ilya)

Dave Margoshes

The heart in its nest, the sun
an egg in a blue bowl, the world
according to plan, the bone free
in its velvet socket. Then a sudden
narrowing of the eyes. There is design
in the madness it takes a lifetime
to ken, purpose to the tooth
but still the teeth tear at our flesh,
still we fall. The heart in its nest
calls out a warning, love is
the listening,
the rising.

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George Elliot Clarke

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J.C. Peters

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Michèle Rackham

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Catherine Turgeon-Gouin

/ Fiction

Brotherly Love

Sharon Zadjman

The Letter

Dawn Promislow

Awakening

Keren Dudescu-Besner

Chair

Elizabeth Creith

Homeless By Design

Martin Mordecai

Moonlit Dreams

Bunmi Oyinsan

Parafin

Rebecca Rustin

The Fruit from My Tree is Mine to Pluck

Natasha Thambirajah

/ Creative Non-Fiction

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Pius Adesanmi

/ Poetry

The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus 

George Elliot Clarke

Letter home

Afam Akeh

Bergson Reloaded

Niran Okewole

Heart's warning (for Ilya)

Dave Margoshes

Humpback

Jeffery Round

Garden Variety / EARWIG

Zachariah Wells

Persephone

Olive Senior

/ Drama

Time

Chukwuma Okoye

Fiction Fantasy and Tabix

Bernadette Gabay Dyer

“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

– Jean-Michel Basquiat
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