Solitary in Des Moines County Early spring, a copper swallows the outlines of clouds, horizontal light plunges amid boughs of splayed...

In honor of National Poetry Month, we thought we’d spotlight six different collections of poetry. Read on and pick your favorite, or...

The River emotions / black rocks of carved perception born / take shape / solidify impermanent / the river flows constantly changing...

By Susan Delgado The distance between the two of them used to be 2,253 miles. Now, the distance is even greater. They had communicated...

SEAGULLS Seagulls standing in the rain in a parking lot at eight in the morning don’t know how ridiculous they look, nor would it ever...

By Sean Stiny A hiker strolled past us with a baby on his back and a Glock strapped to his chest. We feigned nonchalance, gave a trail...

My Tree Trunk When the boy sits on the tree’s stump at the end of the Giving Tree, I used to think it was sad because they had both lived...

[KELP JOURNAL] The first thing I always love to ask photographers is what they look for in a shot. What is the thing that makes you click...

How to Swim once, you knew your feet like flippers beach inviting as the heartbeat of the world now saltwater weeps from nine trillion...

By A.M. Larks The Pickle Index is another dystopian satirical novel brought to you by the minds that created The Silent History. And like...

The Odyssey of 7000 Plastic Ducks Big blue built burgeoning towers of clouds, hurtled hurricanes, smashed massive muscular ramparts of...

By Hunter Prichard Tracy bought them McDonald’s for a treat. Dutch had gotten a perfect score on his minute-math quiz and Beth was acting...

Impressionable Age Our clan's picnic lunch wrapped in Wonder Bread the ham sandwiches she spread, Granpa gifted everything to the Wintu...

By Stephen House I stop my car on the top of a familiar cliff. Below, perfectly formed green-blue waves hit a rocky point and peel into a...

energy in cartooned time, billions of years presented on microscopic slides from professors – slimy ancestor, amoeba-like, bound for...

[KELP JOURNAL] Leslie! Did you know that you are our first graphic artist to be featured on The Wave? I am so excited and as always, I...

Mighty Southern Ocean Surfers in full steam, greenish-emerald extremities, the southern beaches, wild-brumal coughing up strewn seaweed....

By A.M. Larks Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal is a humorous and brilliant blend of a novel. Weaving together a...

A Spotted Sandpiper at Little Compton I teetered myself, in my excitement to see you, on those small boulders, I think you knew this, you...

By Viviane Vives She runs after the ugly truck he made beautiful, talks to trees, bathes in the rivers on the way.  Just like he does....