THRU Magazine Archive
Image by Pok Rie Ocean Home Living on the ocean as I do, I hunt fish and mollusks my kin are otters and whales, wide eyed we dive the night waves, soft in lullabies in a sea dream, starlit and moon cradled my lips are sparkling and salt flecked my eyes wide awake from sleep […]
Never let those Vans dull. Bromance exists in a half second hug. Avoid the Hollister kids in their shiny rides earned solely from parents’ paychecks. Try to finish high school. Strive for above nine twenty-five. You’ll need it for the girl you probably knock up a few months before she turns seventeen. Treat her well. […]
A Shattered Green Color What hangs from my eyes as I look down? Crystal pendulums spinning in the sunlight’s rays. Maybe they spin in fear of something new being on the other side by the time it gets back around? A different environment. Nothing special, just a brilliant green shattered among hazel tinted fragments pieced […]
The Trailing Stars It is summer, and soon the Perseid showers I have gone from my desert home I wander far from crowded towns my feet here in grassy, bee clover on a summery hill, all daisy flowered green, with wild blackberries awaiting the August sun fire. Here amid the slowing of mars retrograde of […]
Featured Image by Stephanie Leet. Title from Amanda Ackerman’s The Book of Feral Flora. I’m swimming in a horse’s eye as it is being carried to school In pieces, in a wheelbarrow Where your grandfather woke up kissing an apple hanging over a stranger’s head Where the children are writing poems you may be reading now […]