Oatmeal: Issue 2, July 2020
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Poetry
Oatmeal: Issue 1, June 2020
Check out the first issue of Arthur’s new monthly zine: OATMEAL! Stay tuned for updates on our July issue to find out more about how your art could be featured! …
Horoscope Haikus: Volume 53 Issue 2
LIBRA Can’t fight this feeling Move with Mercury’s swift wings Tell them how you feel SCORPIO A breakthrough is near Brick by brick a wall is built Smash through the …
Horoscope Haikus: Volume 53 Issue 0
VIRGO Calm heart of the storm Swirling winds tug at your sleeves Let go and just dance LIBRA When you don’t love work Find ways to work with your loves …
The Arts: Weak
A futile exhibition Coffee grounds pressed into tar stains Through the same filter used yesterday A gnawing, clawed hand Rips clump after clump of Neutered hair The budget cuts have …
And they are
She has skin stained with persistence, A roughness that can’t be washed away, He is soft in all the right places, Even when those places feel wrong. Her identity brittle …
Bad Love, bad poetry…good time
Thursday night might have been the night of “Bad Love,” but the atmosphere in the room was far from angry. Trent Writers Society (TWS) held their first open mic poetry …
The Fox Garden
the fox called wises flicks away the fleas paw over paw and he waves his tail so gracefully wizard, waiting, wistful wises asks me about my eyeballs paw over paw …
Wilderness
I crave seclusion At the end of a day Filled With words People And situations I crave mountain air The kind Blessed With pine and purity I crave sunsets Laced …
Beyond the barre
This is a piece about leaving behind what you love most, and how dance follows you outside the studio. Somewhere, in the east end of Ottawa, in a transformed dance …