by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
Spring is everything shouting YES! the flowers to the sun turning up their heads the blossom to the wind so happy to be spread the grass to the rain as it shoots up tall the bees to the pollen most important of all and me to the world and the world to me saying yes to...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
As I step into the cold outside, the outside cold steps into me. It fills and holds my lungs as tight as a sapling grips the soil. My next breath nurtures it quickly into a vast oak, stiff branches reaching out, its dry leaves rustling as the air crawls by. No deeper...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
A tossed seed, a lost seed, an underground after frost seed, A new sprout, a true sprout, a covered in morning dew sprout, A young seedling, a swung seedling, a song that’s yet to be sung seedling, A root tree, a fruit tree, a home for critters to boot tree, A white...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
* Mims Sully is a poet from Sussex who currently enjoys living by the sea. She’s been widely published in magazines and anthologies including Prole, Popshot and Ink, Sweat and Tears, and she won the Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize 2022. When not writing, she...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
A twirling vine climbs a chimney of brick. A tree tickles windows next to my bed. A cushion of moss coats a rock in the park. A maple leaf drifts as a stoplight glows red. A treeful of sparrows swoops under a bridge. A scurry of squirrels scamper and swerve. In the...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
Close your eyes, take a big breath in, one, two, three, puff… Look! A thousand ballerinas pirouette through the air on pointed toes. Higher, higher they soar. Faster, faster they spin. Quick! Make a wish. * Ever since she was a little girl, Emma Mooney dreamed...
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