the sound 

of a

 
 w 
 

a
 

t
 

e
 

r
 

f
 

a
 

l
 

l

~K. Ramesh

 

below the summit false gods 

~Stephanie Zepherelli 

 

armless chair

sunlight through it


~Elliot Diamond

 

everything left ajar


~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

  

rock paper scissors shooting star

~thomas david

 

Questioning the moon . . . AI?

~Kimberly Kuchar 

 

ye shall receipts

~Jerome Berglund

 

liars

dentures, toupees

and speech

~M. R. Pelletier 

 

the German AfDisaster

~Emil Birgschauer

Yogi Tea against Realitea

~Emil Birgschauer

 

truth be told you so

~Peter Jastermsky

 

A.I. etymology: plagiarism = kidnapping


~Nicholas De Marino

a clockwork apple, America

~Nicholas De Marino

all the wrong ways, Dickensian

~Nicholas De Marino

  

from treetop to ditch rainbow


~Alicia Samson

  

so hot flies die trying

~Tony Williams

 

mistakes of dead alphabet continue

~Vijay Prasad

 

twilight the hush of hills 

~K. Ramesh

 

sunken pavers street cat sprawls

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad 

 

autumn already falling

~Joanna Ashwell

 

psychologically speaking, a vine

~Tiffany Rindler 

  

lace curtains

the neighborhood

watch

~John Pappas

slipping into namelessness lake shadow

~John Pappas

 

pounding the earth flat bison

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

narcissism sees I to I

~Mary Oishi

 

history history repeats itself 

~Mary Oishi

 

depends on the day   sunflowers

~Valerie Green

 

squaring

the sunflower
 
dusklight

~Joshua St. Claire

everything

is water

. . .

~Joshua St. Claire

 

Night cringe

Dawn comes anyway

~Daniel S. Irwin

One mind

One leader

Imbeciles 

~Daniel S. Irwin

Snow melts

And why not

~Daniel S. Irwin

 

the end of 

never mind

~Keith Snow 

 

misfiring ceasefire

~Bridget Chebo Enggasser

this poem holds a space

~Bridget Chebo Enggasser

 

organized chaos my mismatched socks


~Oscar Luparia

I N S O M N I A

(one word is enough)


~Oscar Luparia 

 
 
 

abracadabra… 

my useless poem
 
disappears


~Oscar Luparia

 

an ecstasy of claviers trembles

~Richard Magahiz

has Hellcat got your helltongue?

~Richard Magahiz

 

immigration unknown language of joblessness 

~Biswajit Mishra

 

playing cops and robber barons

~Nicholas De Marino

 

elsewhere the shape of goodbye

~Nalini Shetty

 

checks and balances both obsolete

~Ian Willey

no turn on red states

~Ian Willey

bisesquicentennial the bombs bursting midair

~Ian Willey

 

nothing to do list

~Anne Fox

 

drought...

Basho's frog

mute

~Cezar Ciobîcă 

 

more caffeine for anarchy

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

fictional reality collides

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

candy-coated misery 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

go west young moon

~Cynthia Anderson

 

between lines a parallel universe

~Ravi Kiran

 

 

 

choosy choosers choose destiny

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

gooseflesh on water, cold rain 

~Clarabelle Miray Fields

 

sound of clouds gathering

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

the past is another country

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

spiritual match yes for chocolate 

~Peter Jastermsky

  

At center, full, vacuos


~Francisco Soares

  

unique, just like everybody else

~Tim Cremin

 

night lamp       f  i r  e  f  l i  e  s

~Joanna Ashwell 

 

your name

deleted

itself

~Jacek Margolak

moss on the password

~Jacek Margolak

 

say no 

start a fire

~Tiffany Rindler

dew

but i can

wait

~Tiffany Rindler

 

cop-out: leave them wanting less

~Merilee Johnson

 

cicada—
the politics
of family

~Aidan Castle

 

shedding my skin mangelwurzel

~Melissa Dennison

 

dry river...your deafening silence

~Melissa Dennison

 

today—

tomorrow forgot 

my address

~Jim Niffen 

 

small potatoes food for thought

~Mark Meyer

my superior inferiority complex

~Mark Meyer

tabula rasa my latest chapbook

~Mark Meyer

just this once ad infinitum

~Mark Meyer

 

hollyhock hocus pocus 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

  

elegant anger like a swan.

~linda m. crate

 

larks 

overlook 

tears 

under missiles 

~O.P. Jha 

 

owls in all four walls

~Ron Scully

stars, for all you do

~Ron Scully

 

where the last word belongs

~Ron Scully

 

food fish food

~Jerome Berglund

 

the news today, like yesterday.


~Shontay Luna 

 

whispers  across void two particles

~Vijay Prasad 

 

beach chairs

still

the sea

~Gareth Nurden 

 

after ripple

water

levels

~Elliot Diamond 

 

 

The

       Floor

                 Can

                         Take
 
                                  It

~Clare Kitt

Moving faster by sitting still

~Clare Kitt

 

finding my legs childhood leeches

~Adele Gallogly

hotel loneliness leaf-toed gecko

~Adele Gallogly

 

what butterflies remember

~Kimberly Kuchar

 

the time a butterfly takes
  

~K. Ramesh

 

DIY ASAP

YOLO

fly high

~Maria Tosti

 

not totally delusional 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

life beneath the sand

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

words made of air

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

A gerbil running amok 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

you’re clever handed 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

wasting time running away
 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

tempted by unknown fruit 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

monotony of broken clocks 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

too much out there 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

long gaps of nothing

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

one perfectly fat

         toad

~Kris Lindbeck 

 

peach of mind

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

 

where we were once wildflowers

~susan burch 

 

Sunday finest

a camellia poses

~Isabella Mori

 

left unsaid the unsaid

~thomas david

accepting

all cookies

santa claus

~thomas david

after the birdsong    this silence

~thomas david 

 

birds in search of wings

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

a voice for no one

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

gravity

the ultimate gossip 

~Leonard Zinovyev

silence speaks in knives 

~Leonard Zinovyev 

 

even though wars nodding daffodils

~Arvinder Kaur 

 

flies buzzing around the choice


~Vijay Prasad

 

spidersilk kimono and moonlight slippers

~Richard Magahiz

 

post-traumatic

psychotrope

semper

fidelis

 

~Richard Magahiz

 

we only

planted one . . .

zucchini!

~Debbie Strange

 

 

technicallyitsstilloneword

~Alper Ghuchlu 

 

Journey -

 

                                            There

 

                              and

 

Back

 

Again

~Julie Parker-Kinsey

 

wOe

~Sarah Paris

 

Stars the rest is silent

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

surrounded but still unseen

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

reflecting lies 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

quantum dawning over the algorithm 

~Vishal Prabhu