blue skies the understory green

~M. R. Pelletier

on

 

existence

shuffles on tiny

legs

~Vijay Prasad

on

 

shaping a prophecy autumn fog

~Vandana Parashar 



across the spectrum fluid morality 

~Vandana Parashar

on


space

the word

refuses

~Jacek Margolak



misprint

my name

moves slightly

~Jacek Margolak



stiff leather

remembering the bone

~Jacek Margolak

on

 

slime mold popular mechanics


~Jerome Berglund



overton window

stained glass

~Jerome Berglund



portion control

learned 

helplessness

~Jerome Berglund

on


spawning salamanders nationwide

gerrymanders

~Douglas J. Lanzo

on

 

ElbridgeGerrycutoffhis

head

~Noah Berlatsky

on

 

gentle acupuncture she recites Basho


~Norma Bradley

on


karaoke curriculum


~Marjorie Pezzoli



in peach moment    now


~Marjorie Pezzoli

on

 

Collecting words I cannot say


~Merilee Johnson

on

 

paper-thin his see-through lies 


~Stephanie Zepherelli



everythingatonceneurodivergent 


~Stephanie Zepherelli

on

 

ctrl alt-right delete

~thomas david

on


war games play criminal injustice

~Jan Stretch

on


grass stains paying the price


~Pris Campbell

on

 

after a long winter daffodils


~Joseph P. Wechselberger

on

 

newborn...

the boat’s

slow rocking


~Eugeniusz Zacharski

on


blossoms the lips of twigs


~John Levy

on


Sky photobombing sky sunset


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Bird chorus weekend minuet


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Old laughing lady crows screech 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on

 

Something to guac about
 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Such a ridiculous miracle


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Verklempt chaos city streets 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Some kind of mental debris


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Living through history misdeeds


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Poking holes in reality


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Haunted by unfinished words


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Keep comments brief and tasteful 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on


blue glow of flickering meteors

~Alper Ghuchlu

on


She left one red shoe.

~Russell Dupont

on


azure wings wake willow bones

~Melissa Dennison

on

 

playing pinball the chaos inside


~Kevin Browne

on

 

liberty

or 

statue? 

~Partha Sarkar

on


void begins to wonder


~Jordan Curry

on

 

pigs fly:

the apologist

apologizes

~Morag Elizabeth Humble

on


depression my psychic vampire


~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

on

 

Absentee, running in place.


~Chad Parenteau

on

 

death poem a distant lawnmower

~Stephen Toft



twilight the poacher’s silent song

~Stephen Toft



lilacs

an abandoned

tax return

~Stephen Toft

on

 

east of eden in weeds

~Joseph Salvatore Aversano



doubt a litmus papered krishna

~Joseph Salvatore Aversano



an old pond jumps in

~Joseph Salvatore Aversano

on

 

might makes right turn only


~Ian Willey



the cost of living dangerously


~Ian Willey



ceasefire them all now


~Ian Willey



the shed door unhinged tweets


~Ian Willey

on

 

a promise kept first crocus


~Bryan Rickert

on

 

clinging to

spring light

dew


~Gareth Nurden



drying

my winter garden

sunburst


~Gareth Nurden



old well

buying

a wish


~Gareth Nurden

on


river pebbles my lost youth


~Mona Bedi



falling out of love wildflowers


~Mona Bedi

on


green leaves brown azaleas

~Ed Bremson

on

 

cease failures 

~Marjorie Pezzoli



unhinged priorities bombs away

~Marjorie Pezzoli



truth unsocial pirate in command

~Marjorie Pezzoli

on

 

it’s got her personality fruitcake

~susan burch

on

 

dragging the dusk summer love
 

~Vandana Parashar

on

 

midsummer

our soles

in sand

~Gareth Nurden

on


60% enrichment chrysanthemum

~Ron Scully

on

 

the

anxious

zombie

eats

itself


~Noah Berlatsky

on


 A trip through the skin


~Yael Shahar Sarid

on

 

wordless paragraph a semi-colon stirs

~Vishal Prabhu

on

 

tilde 

the smoke

of words

~Vijay Prasad

on

 

modern language—typos are us

~John H. Dromey

on

 

tasting real science candy rockets

~Peter Jastermsky



off square still resenting Rothko

~Peter Jastermsky

on

fish are silent with fish

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

on


once upon a time's up

~Mark Meyer

on


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

on


functionaries gonna function

~David S. Golding

on


 anxiety my toothbrush’s punk hairstyle

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

on


Can talismans protect

against yourself?

~Joanne Macias

on

 

cheeks Nonnas busy pinching
 

~Susan Beth Furst

on


not my flesh

colored

crayons


~Gordon Brown

on


outdoor concert wind ensemble

~Tim Cremin

 


streetlights raining umbrella music

~Tim Cremin

on

ease off my vaguest nerve

~Richard Magahiz

on

 

borscht pours peace into her

~Anna Goluba

on


wax tears

grieving

the candle

~Nicholas De Marino

on


always almost an admissible substitute

~Vishal Prabhu

on


here

nothing beneath 

or beyond

~M. R. Pelletier 



clarity and coffee

AA meeting 

~M. R. Pelletier 



Mojave wind 

a vulture circles

~M. R. Pelletier

on

 

history doomscrolling itself


— Martina Matijević

on


immoral dance-a-thon kings  

— Scott C. Holstad

on


snowy owl






a sorcerer’s reach





— Joanna Ashwell

on


never lands thought falling upward 

— Vijay Prasad

on


meteor shower exfoliating the abyss

— Sara Winteridge

on


placebo effect when magic works 


— Jerome Berglund




no chicken à la kings


 — Jerome Berglund

on


better late than never min





— thomas david




machine unlearning




— thomas david




smol-time crook


— thomas david

on

 

spring drum

 protest parade

   pace

— Kathabela Wilson



tie-dying her shoelaces

— Kathabela Wilson



moon day night light

— Kathabela Wilson

on

 

Sleeping

is practice for dying


— Yael Shahar Sarid

on

"O"





isn't



zero,





oh...









— Keith Snow

on


—absence presses against silent ground

— Patricia Nellene Deal

on

 re-fusing the bomb

— Anne Fox

on

bodies strewn everywhere



March Madness
















— Douglas J. Lanzo

on


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
on

 

deniability the evidence of god

— Vishal Prabhu

on

 

wrong note—

schnauzer

joins in


— Elliot Diamond

on

 

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

on

 

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


— Mark Valentine

on

 

her lungs forget the air

— Vijay Prasad

on

 

tunneling into myself dysmorphia


— Shloka Shankar



invoking Midas inflation

— Shloka Shankar

on

 

outlining every stone pond ice

— Bryan Rickert



twilight moth fodder for poetry

— Bryan Rickert



our past perfect stargazing

— Bryan Rickert

on

 

her lunar eclipses his


— Randy Brooks

on
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