Tempt not the silence, for the fates are deep

Returning to the room:

I notice how

all your word-

plays, calculated ploys

of the body, the witticisms

of touch, are now

attempts to keep me

at a certain distance

and (at length) avoid

admitting I am here

I watch you

watching my face

indifferently

Francine Van Hove

Amylin Loglisci

" If it has given, it did so in order to take. "
(life) 











Stephen Wright






Michael Klein

The secret is,

Even the empty bed is a burden to them,

A pretense.

They are more themselves keeping

The company of a blank wall,

The company of time and eternity

Kailin Zhao






Alison Van Pelt

 my limbs, also, have left me. 

 Who has dismembered us?

The dark is melting. We touch like cripples.

Christine Wu 





title - George Sylvester Viereck 
1 -  excerpt from a poem of Margaret Atwood  
2 line - Schopenhauer
3 - excerpt from a poem of Charles Simic
4 - from a poem of  S. Plath