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Two poems and image above by Alan McGuire Homeless Jesus   Why aren’t you inside, being praised, hanging from a cross, watching them break bread in your... Continue reading

  by Steven Taylor Capitalism Is coming for you. It’s in your rentAnd wages. The price of your essentials.Energy. Advertisements. The thingsYou see on television. In the... Continue reading

  by James O'Brien The percussion on your teeth, A drum roll, precision revolver, Rattling around an abyss dissonance. A voided revulsion of mouth, A choke spasm... Continue reading

  by Mike Jenkins, with photo above by William Murphy   I imagine you shaking your head  At the stations and pub in your name  In a... Continue reading

by Kevin McCann As Michelangelo’s collecting marble From the local quarry And his lads load up the cart He spots a cracked green chunk Propping open an... Continue reading

  by Steve Pottinger, with image above by Fran Lock   only that each tank will beat itself into a thousand ploughshares   and snipers, dead-eyed, precise... Continue reading

Photo: Marcus and his brother Jahziah by Nick Moss History repeats, ploughs on unceasing, Another dying man, another father, Brother, friend shot dead . Cold, Christmas-crisp air... Continue reading

by Sam Friedman, illustrated with commons images Love at the Workplace My stomach knots with hatred of bosses’ sneers; my tears transmute to spittle in defiance, eyes... Continue reading

by Fran Lock, with commons image above / wait for it./ spring to come, reconstitute the stubborn world./ our bodies, tailored to containment./ fault-line forcing an afternoon./... Continue reading