by Katy Bowser Hutson | Aug 30, 2024 | Poetry Volume 1, Issue 3
Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu: Tangling and strangling legitimate life. Chemo is a killing, a burning out: Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately But cancer, did you know that I am a poet? My job is to cull through the chaos with tweezers and...
by Angela | May 24, 2024 | Poetry Volume 1, Issue 2
I am not braveI am not strongI am not a hero I have cancerI have no choiceI do what I mustI have fearsit’s hard to trust I am not okI do not feel goodI no longer can dowhat I once could I don’t want more surgeryI don’t want more radiationI...
by Meg Senuta | Feb 26, 2024 | Poetry Volume 1, Issue 1
Photo taken in 2011 by Meg Senuta I hated the word the day I was well enough to drive myself to a church for my first IBC support group meeting. The letters on the sign out front read, “A Community of Hope.” My heart sank. Needing hope felt the same as having no hope....
by Lori McCallister | Feb 22, 2024 | Poetry Volume 1, Issue 1
Photo and poem by Lori McCallister “I put my toes In the sand. No need For stars now. What I have Inside of me Shines in the dark. I look up To a listening heaven. I lived life Right up to My new beginning. God and I Put our toes In the sand. And watch my...
by Jennifer | Feb 14, 2024 | Poetry Volume 1, Issue 1
By Jennifer Battles lost Battles won Love lost Love won People lost People won Truth lost Truth won Two sides to the same coin. Always flipping in perpetual motion. Seldom stopping for long. Always resuming it’s path for all to...