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Dust Dreams by Nancy Lee

Dust Dreams by Nancy Lee

When I was just five
the water truck dampened the stone-clogged roadways
in a daily ritual
to bless the paths we traveled to touch one another.
Their corduroy surfaces laced our community, binding us to each other
a fortuitous family, once strangers
who built lives at the end of dirt roads. Continue reading Dust Dreams by Nancy Lee

Posted on July 26, 2017July 26, 2017Author 8-WEST PRESSCategories creative writing, poetry, Uncategorized
Be All That You Can Be by David Kirby

Be All That You Can Be by David Kirby

I pick up pieces of paper I find on the sidewalk because

you never know what you’ll find, and the other day,

after I find this note in which the writer expresses sorrow

for her sins and vows to sin no more, I show it

to Barbara and ask if she ever felt that way, and she says,

Continue reading Be All That You Can Be by David Kirby

Posted on July 20, 2017July 20, 2017Author 8-WEST PRESSCategories creative writing, poetryTags David Kirby
Thoughts without words by Mike Zimmerman

Thoughts without words by Mike Zimmerman

My grandfather began to cry

at Thanksgiving dinner when

my grandmother asked him,

“You remember how we met?”

He cried. They don’t know why. Continue reading Thoughts without words by Mike Zimmerman

Posted on July 13, 2017Author 8westpressgabeCategories creative writing, poetry, Uncategorized
Keep Breathing by David Rodriguez

Keep Breathing by David Rodriguez

Keep Breathing

When I breathe, I know, open-mouthed,
I allow my ribs to pull up and out,
tensed as the frame drum’s spitting beat,
air pressure lowering so I become
a bubblegum-colored slide into the alveoli.
  Continue reading Keep Breathing by David Rodriguez

Posted on July 5, 2017Author 8westpressgabeCategories creative writing, poetry, Uncategorized
Expiration by Naushena

Expiration by Naushena

Expiration

A leaf- a brown leaf
Dangled on a brown tree,
Shaken by the blowing wind Continue reading Expiration by Naushena

Posted on June 29, 2017Author 8westpressgabeCategories creative writing, poetryTags Ecopoetics, Embers, Fire
Two Prose Poems by Daniel Romo

Two Prose Poems by Daniel Romo

Stomping Ground

Each step is a lesson in reverse. A nostalgic walk caught between moving forward and revisiting hurt. This is high school; everything is a matter of mattering. Continue reading Two Prose Poems by Daniel Romo

Posted on June 27, 2017Author 8westpressgabeCategories creative writing, poetry
My New Neighbors by Christoph Keller

My New Neighbors by Christoph Keller

My New Neighbors

Jack doesn’t live in his house anymore. John, who now lives there, told me that. It’s a corporate decision, he said. John barely knows me but insists on being friends. He brings an expensive bottle of wine and hugs me. This is too fast for me. Continue reading My New Neighbors by Christoph Keller

Posted on June 20, 2017Author 8westpressgabeCategories artwork, creative writing, poetry
My Mother’s Photograph by Cheryl Heineman

My Mother’s Photograph by Cheryl Heineman

My Mother’s Photograph 

My mother kept her cup of gin nearby.
She had sex in the afternoon. Habit kept
order, swept the floors, ironed the pillowcases,
kept the light on and made her death little by little.
Continue reading My Mother’s Photograph by Cheryl Heineman

Posted on June 14, 2017Author 8westpressgabeCategories creative writing, poetry, UncategorizedTags creative writing, poetry, reflections
Vivarium by K.J. Williams

Vivarium by K.J. Williams

but human life is confined in a glass box
draped in a black curtain;
there’s nothing behind it.
but it’s our audacity that makes us try
Continue reading Vivarium by K.J. Williams

Posted on June 12, 2017June 13, 2017Author 8-WEST PRESSCategories creative writing, poetry, UncategorizedTags K.J. Williams, reflections
Two Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee

Two Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee

A WIND MACHINE FOR ORANGES UP NORTH
When asked about
the last orange grove in Orange County –
++++++I am at a loss.

Continue reading Two Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee

Posted on June 4, 2017June 4, 2017Author 8-WEST PRESSCategories creative writing, poetry, submissionsTags creative writing, mandarin, orange county, poetry, san diego

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