by Allyson Dempsey
“I built / a boy / from clay. / Breathed life / into his body.”
by Allyson Dempsey
“I built / a boy / from clay. / Breathed life / into his body.”
by Daniel Dyal
“Forget cleansing / my room. Burn down the whole / house.”
by Christine Scronce
“Some people say Icarus drowned because he was foolish. / Others because he loved the sun.”
by Marcus Huffman
“the very nights that make a grown man shake; / i cannot stand these lonely, freezing nights.”
by Ben Long. Second place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest
by Doug Van Gundy
“darker / than the startling plunge into night before the evening / has even gotten going, darker than even the morning cinders / of last night’s fire…”
by Renard Matthews. Third place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest
by Brennon Weese. First place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest
“Bozo the Clown and Alfred E. Newman, / a preening buffoon, he hides in his hairdo.”
“Telling people what I do for a living / Is volunteering to feel a lump in my throat.”