By Michelle Chin

Folds the beauty a compress warm Pressed against the face  a cut; thin but swollen  Painful but,  Sweet is the hand that caresses me;...

Submitted as part of the 2025 Humanities and Healing Event.

She will rip up floorboards and bear rust-eaten nails to sunlight, Shatter the potted plants that suffocate under the burden of their own...

"Reflections" "Desert Life" "The Mountain" Submitted as part of the 2025 Humanities and Healing Event.

The giving tree stood tall in spirit, even without fruit Without leaves, branches, or the canopy to shade Those it loved. It stood tall...

Atop The Hanging Hills rests my town below Always the same, that cursed hike. Forlorn bodies climb its dark tableau To feel that warm...

Submitted as part of the 2025 Humanities and Healing Event.

sometimes I even forgot It was there  reliable like the tide, a ravenous tsunami they looked at me and constructed a pharmaceutical...

Submitted as part of the 2025 Humanities and Healing Event.

Submitted as part of the 2025 Humanities and Healing Event. By Colin McMullan

Submitted as part of the 2025 Humanities and Healing Event.