it’s got her personality fruitcake

~susan burch

 

dragging the dusk summer love

 

~Vandana Parashar

 

midsummer

our soles

in sand

~Gareth Nurden

60% enrichment chrysanthemum

~Ron Scully

 

the

anxious

zombie

eats

itself

~Noah Berlatsky

 A trip through the skin

~Yael Shahar Sarid

 

wordless paragraph a semi-colon stirs

~Vishal Prabhu

 

tilde 

the smoke

of words

~Vijay Prasad

 

modern language—typos are us

~John H. Dromey

 

tasting real science candy rockets

~Peter Jastermsky

off square still resenting Rothko

~Peter Jastermsky

fish are silent with fish

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

once upon a time's up

~Mark Meyer

boat ripples the lake’s glitter

~Ravi Kiran

without its own house fly

~Ravi Kiran

between fact and fiction AI

~Ravi Kiran

beyond here and now consequences

~Ravi Kiran

functionaries gonna function

~David S. Golding

 anxiety my toothbrush’s punk hairstyle

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

Can talismans protect

against yourself?

~Joanne Macias

 

cheeks Nonnas busy pinching

 

~Susan Beth Furst

not my flesh

colored

crayons

~Gordon Brown

outdoor concert wind ensemble

~Tim Cremin

 

streetlights raining umbrella music

~Tim Cremin

ease off my vaguest nerve

~Richard Magahiz

 

borscht pours peace into her

~Anna Goluba

wax tears

grieving

the candle

~Nicholas De Marino

always almost an admissible substitute

~Vishal Prabhu

here

nothing beneath 

or beyond

~M. R. Pelletier 

clarity and coffee

AA meeting 

~M. R. Pelletier 

Mojave wind 

a vulture circles

~M. R. Pelletier

 

history doomscrolling itself

— Martina Matijević

immoral dance-a-thon kings  

— Scott C. Holstad

snowy owl

a sorcerer’s reach

— Joanna Ashwell

never lands thought falling upward 

— Vijay Prasad

meteor shower exfoliating the abyss

— Sara Winteridge

placebo effect when magic works 

— Jerome Berglund

no chicken à la kings

 — Jerome Berglund

better late than never min

— thomas david

machine unlearning

— thomas david

smol-time crook

— thomas david

 

spring drum

 protest parade

   pace

— Kathabela Wilson

tie-dying her shoelaces

— Kathabela Wilson

moon day night light

— Kathabela Wilson

 

Sleeping

is practice for dying


— Yael Shahar Sarid

"O"

isn't

zero,

oh...

— Keith Snow

—absence presses against silent ground

— Patricia Nellene Deal

 re-fusing the bomb

— Anne Fox

bodies strewn everywhere

March Madness

— Douglas J. Lanzo

crabapple seeds in your voice

— Vidya Premkumar

never theirs boquilla in mimcry

— Vidya Premkumar

daybreak ceasarweeds unbutton the light

— Vidya Premkumar

future perfect deleting toxic friends

— Vidya Premkumar

 

deniability the evidence of god

— Vishal Prabhu

 

wrong note—

schnauzer

joins in


— Elliot Diamond

 

A quandary of conjecture stars

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Made to edit memories

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

I’m as controlled as illusions

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Uninvited friend chronic pain

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

An abandoned shoe two crows

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Doomsday and espresso cups

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Misfit blood moon

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Only a thing to do nothing

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Both guard and prisoner

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Leather face juggling tomatoes

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

shrug, shuffle the pack /////////

— Mark Valentine

 

her lungs forget the air

— Vijay Prasad

 

tunneling into myself dysmorphia

— Shloka Shankar

invoking Midas inflation

— Shloka Shankar

 

outlining every stone pond ice

— Bryan Rickert

twilight moth fodder for poetry

— Bryan Rickert

our past perfect stargazing

— Bryan Rickert

 

her lunar eclipses his


— Randy Brooks

 

a bomb scaring the lightning

— Soumya Mukherjee

 

white

handkerchief-

love?

Truce?


— Partha Sarkar

 

war without end wisteria

— Alvin B. Cruz

 

for the love of go(l)d


— Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

cathedral earth water sun ecumenical

— dan smith

 

comets scratch the night sky

— Royal Rhodes

the heavens scream in asterisks

— Royal Rhodes

 

dooby do be dubious

— John H. Dromey

periodic tables occasional chairs

— John H. Dromey

 

Little birds thrown in storms

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Beautiful but concerning sky trash

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Discombobulated ship against the tide

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Satire and the damage done

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

A touch spicy out there


— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

such lovely bones charred oak


— Sarah Paris

 

the same

prayer

for rain

— Mariola Grabowska

 

nail-bitten fingers crossed


— Ravi Kiran

 

old wood

creaks

in cursive

— Jacek Margolak

 

St. Patrick's Day

Vote Green!

— Helen Buckingham

 

skylark

looking for

God

 
— Cezar Ciobîcă

 

rising sea not your teacup

— Sheza T.

 

fuel war

drivers dig deep

— Tuyet Van Do

 

unhinged  pandora's box

— Melissa Dennison

bla 

      the

  ber

         moon

    mouth

— Joshua St. Claire

…moonsilence


— Joshua St. Claire

shattered moon snail

— Joshua St. Claire

 

Deep silence

A frog

Hesitates

— Anna Goluba

 

A morsel of malarkey

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

meditation slowly unfolds a leaf


— Mariola Grabowska

 

Oiliest wheel gets squeaked

— Keith Snow

 

spare tired

— Nicholas De Marino

 

that citizenship has sailed


— John Hawkhead

 

resetting to default gun money

— Anne Fox

 

Spring, sundown, guns still around.

— Chad Parenteau

 

spomeniks this brutal(ist) world

words & image — Debbie Strange

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the voiceless

peace doves

coo.

— Lynn White

 

my shadow departs without apologies

— Vijay Prasad

 

historic

metamorphosis –

Basho’s frog

— Paul Callus

death –

imagine

all the people

— Paul Callus

 

making sense of the nonsense


— Soumya Mukherjee

 

life uploaded to the cloud

— Jan Stretch

 

compassion arrested at the border

— Jan Stretch

 

Thirsty

AI...

driest

earth.


— Partha Sarkar

 

beside the point melodrama

— Stephanie Zepherelli

 

mountain boots outrunning a troll


— Joanna Ashwell

 

the sense makes no truth

— Ian Willey

two-party system failure

— Ian Willey

rich white mendacity

— Ian Willey