"My son, my brother and my friend
Are shades I follow in my dreams.
They offer me swift glancing gleams,
Of all that is, not all that seems..."
Those blue remembered hills by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/those... #poetry #loss and a side of #music in the Lit Up press #litpub & #poetrycommunity

"...Eleven pairs of eyes now face the floor. Stalks of grain, pushed down by wind. Does the bowing sun still shine?..."Life for Many Peoples by Arielle Blackburn medium.com/lit-up/life-... #poetry #prosepoetry #faith in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"...Eleven pairs of eyes now face the floor. Stalks of grain, pushed down by wind. Does the bowing sun still shine?..."Life for Many Peoples by Arielle Blackburn https://medium.com/lit-up/life-for-many-peoples-91d7085d269a #poetry #prosepoetry #faith in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"...you said, “Here’s for the sapper.”
but how could i know that’s a soldier
defusing landmines, while all the time
it was the maple sap we boiled into syrup
heart-tracks in the snow..."
Sapper by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#read #poetry in The Mad River #Litpub & #poetrycommunity

"Cedric Moon knows one thing for sure, and right now that’s enough. The world he is capable of recognizing has died..."
Night Fall, Moon Rise by @jackprestonking.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#halloween #magicalrealism #fiction in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
#quickread

"I was there when Achilles fell,
there before the horse —
before it all: the burning wall,
before Clytemnestra buried her blade..."
Painted by Harper Lewis medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #mythology in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"I was there when Achilles fell,
there before the horse —
before it all: the burning wall,
before Clytemnestra buried her blade..."
Painted by Harper Lewis https://medium.com/the-mad-river/painted-610ddc5ffc2f #poetry #mythology in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"Grief is a purr so quiet
I check for breath
And feel the quiet rumble
Soft, soft, slow
Time runs low..."
Let the End Be Kind & other #poems by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/let-t...
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity #death #loss #grief

"Grief is a purr so quiet
I check for breath
And feel the quiet rumble
Soft, soft, slow
Time runs low..."
Let the End Be Kind & other #poems by Crystal Jackson https://medium.com/lit-up/let-the-end-be-kind-5b1c57d0dc08
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity #death #loss #grief

"...So, I took memory in hand,
shadows softly sinking,
into that day when
I will read the runes again..."
RAMBLING by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/rambl...
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#read & #share a #poem today :)

"...So, I took memory in hand,
shadows softly sinking,
into that day when
I will read the runes again..."
RAMBLING by John E Marks https://medium.com/lit-up/rambling-1874090be9d7
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#read & #share a #poem today :)

"...You will sing-scream song lyrics
Ripe with ready rage
You will wrap yourself in
A sad girl serenade..."
Sad Girl Serenade by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/sad-g... #poetry #growingup in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity

At the door, she stopped and looked back at the rows of empty desks.
She gave them a little wave. “See you Monday.”
The Only Person Working for the Company by Takeshi Chin medium.com/lit-up/the-o... #fiction #quietfiction #litfic in the Lit Up press & #litpub #readingcommunity

"Before the knowledge that feminism and craft coffee both share many waves..."
My Husband, the High Priest of Caffeine by Arielle Blackburn medium.com/lit-up/my-hu... #creativenonfiction #narrativenonfiction #cnf in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity

"They mourn September and paint over
the kind of memory holes that begin
at fifteen..."
Sonnet for the Good Girls by Todd Heldt medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry #VAW #trauma in The Mad River #litpub & #poetrycommunity

"fluffy and tiny
she hops around
the big wide moon..."
The Moon Rabbit by Sowshan medium.com/lit-up/the-m...
#poetry #faith in the Lit Up press #litpub

"On this day of flowers, the animals follow
the usual path of the sun
ripples coagulate like blood..."
Oxford, August 1941 by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/oxfor... #poetry in @thelituppress #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#Oxford #BridgeofSighs #haiga

"Copa met the question that would haunt him for the rest of his life — When was time first created?.."
Buya, Everywhere by Yang Zefan medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#time #fiction #literaryfiction in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity

"And now, here I am, just about to be swallowed, feet first, into the stomach of the MRI beast..."
Half Life by @malorynye.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/half-...
#fiction #chronicillness #ChronicFatigue in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #readingcommunity

"...Days dragged and minutes raced.
The seasons nagged:

“Don’t forget your coat.”..."
#read the rest of the #poem in the Lit Up press
#litpub and #poetrycommunity
Late Summer Night’s Dream by Jean Campbell medium.com/lit-up/late-...
#poetry to #share