that snipped flower, death

— Ed Higgins

frogs

unsettling

the rising moon

— Ed Higgins

 

Pisces

fish

out of water

— M. R. Pelletier

change

new delusions

for old

— M. R. Pelletier

the astral body untethering stardust

— M. R. Pelletier

 

deportation yellow petals of dandelions

— Bruce H. Feingold

 

daring to resist ignorance

— Nicoletta Ignatti

 

put back the kcolc

— Noah Berlatsky

 

noon

shadows of trees

shorten

— Gareth Nurden

an old friend

reappears

snowstorm

— Gareth Nurden

 

system downgrade redacting reality

— Stephanie Zepherelli

 

I am! (I think)

— Chad Parenteau

 

 

chainsaw c'mon trust me

— Tiffany Rindler

night ripped off the bone

— Tiffany Rindler

 

state

and

oppression -

friendly

fire

— Partha Sarkar

death -

the

next

email.

— Partha Sarkar

 

meaning hesitates where body begins

— Vijay Prasad

 

werewolf fashion set in stone

— Nicholas De Marino

Is this it ..? Yup.

— Nicholas De Marino

 

chain link life

— Anne Fox

 

cleaving the universe pomegranate

— Elaine Pelletier

 

shot into silence

— Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

when rejection strikes     buttercups

— Maya Daneva

fog lifts one becomes someone

— Maya Daneva

 

ashes

flaming memories of home

— Kala Ramesh

 

all sex shop lingerie half-off

— John J. Dunphy

 

keep it short

yes

— Tuyet Van Do

 

phantom limbs

tapping the window


— Joanna Ashwell

 

death -

an

endless

full stop.

— Partha Sarkar

 

haunted house never again alone

— Martina Matijević

 

sleepwalking, we halve the distance

— Samantha Malay

 

midnight creaks

the house

sleepwalking

— Cynthia Anderson

 

(w)reckoning

— Lorelyn Arevalo

 

splash—bigger than a frog

— Tim Cremin

midsummer nightstream

— Tim Cremin

horror movie extra cheese

— Tim Cremin

 

technically it’s the future now

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

fireflies in a tree Disneyland

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

in between

truth and

lies

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

no olive branches just hemlock

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

twisted that treacherous park strolling

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

sparrows spread their mortal wings

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

adulthood excited about sweatpants

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

the chemistry of the moment

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

heavy days they creep around

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

what does it mean? nothing

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

sunrise quietly boiling eggs

— Susan King

blackbirds borderline raucous

— Susan King

crooked gravestones straightening my spine

— Susan King

 

bawlroom

— Tracy Davidson

 

for now i am winter

— Ben Malay

 

no ellipsis

period

exclamation point

— Keith Snow

 

gopher it

— John H. Dromey

 

painting freshly recycled

                                             paradigms

— Scott C. Holstad

 

I think, I doubt.

— Steka Vanra

 

thinking I’m alone gathering crows

— Thomas Tilton

 

first snow angels in waiting

— Bryan Rickert

 

my life’s pages unexamined


— Timothy Daly

 

TV off survival skills

— Oscar Luparia

 

autumn leaves us leafless

— Jennifer Gurney

 

digging science with toy shovels

— Elliot Diamond

 

strumming my nodes therapy guitarist

— Rupa Anand

 

8--infinity on its toes

— Herb Kitson

brevity--too wise for words

— Herb Kitson

 

fitting room

nothing

fitting

— Joseph P. Wechselberger

 

star freckled child fast asleep


— Sam Calhoun

 

p     u
a     n
r      i
a     v
l      e
l      r
e     s
l      e

— Alvin B. Cruz

 

error 404 haiku not found

— thomas david

new pants increasing the bandwidth

— thomas david

nothing

but the truth

wikipedia

— thomas david

 

mountains                                           

                   \                                     

                       nobody talks about

                                                         \

                                                              valleys.

— naomi olivia

 

common (non)sense

— Martina Matijević

 

ballerina shooting off the ankle

— Vishal Prabhu

 

"I"

a point

of view

— M. R. Pelletier

 

sun buzz dog day cicada

— Tim Cremin

big splash crummy dive

— Tim Cremin

 

who to be late for

— Thomas Smith

 

dark writing   :   black ink

— Mark Gilbert

 

keeping in shape bonsai

— Jan Stretch

 

monochromatic circus

clowns don't smile

— Jacek Wilkos

 

[{(!)}] unmasking

— Pravat Kumar Padhy

 

co_ _ection

— Olivier Schopfer

 

orange blooms reliving the past

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

despair another name for love

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

parallel universe, inside of atoms

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

junk food venting in person

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

jagged

edges of days

thorns

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

deconstructing the metaphor making stew

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

pumpkins on porches mismatched shoes

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

the

algorithmic

life

of strays

— Nitu Yumnam

 

the        s          p           a         c          e              silence     takes


— Ron Scully

 

bedridden teddy bear and i

— Isabella Mori

coffin

the face

of mystery

— Isabella Mori

 

within a manager’s control dead fly

— Ernesto P. Santiago

 

acorns landing percussive wind chimes

— Ed Bremson

 

why

        no  t

                 rust

— John Pappas

 

fly ball the sparrows

— Joshua St. Claire

deus ex machina moon

— Joshua St. Claire

 

jagged edges – cutting paper dolls

— Jiel Narvekar

 

jumpin’ Jehoshaphat great galloping jackrabbits

— Cynthia Anderson

up up where oxygen howls

— Richard Magahiz

butter plates heaped with shadows

— Richard Magahiz

mass ... shame ... the deep nothingness

— Richard Magahiz

 
a century

of love

grandma

— Douglas J. Lanzo

 

minimal kenosis

— Stephen Bailey

soulvents from a dissolute interior


— Stephen Bailey

nothing sounding so like death


— Stephen Bailey

 

monkey on the vine of despair

— Pris Campbell

 

church garden deadheading the theocracy

— Bryan Rickert

the faces blurry asylum paintings

— Bryan Rickert

 

tweezers : grasping for reality


— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

when scars align

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

circling buzzards changing my will

— Susan King

 

burying the Hatch Act

— John H. Dromey

 

it’s a smol world

— John H. Dromey

 

        top

        the

       back

         to

— Michael Henry Lee

 

a stone drinking the footsteps

— Vijay Prasad

 

Recapitulation

— Debadrita Sarkar

 

Sour Patch Adults


— Nicholas De Marino

       p       a       c
s                               e


— Nicholas De Marino

 

seeking peace

leaders prepare

war

— Tuyet Van Do

 

amidst aggression

a serene resilience

— Olinda Ninolakis