Poetry

Nika

By Mehrdad Mehrju  It is a tale of woe— headlines scream of the empty…

An Ode to Holidays, or Lack Thereof

Tick, tick, tick.  

I can always hear the ticking, as relentless as the fly buzzing above my bed on a sleepless summer night.  

Tick, tick, tick. 

It’s the sound of time slowly slipping through my fingers, forever, endlessly, without cease.