smols is an eclectic poetry journal featuring ultra-shorts, five words max (weird or otherwise). Submit up to five untitled pieces. Email to fivefleasitchypoetry@gmail.com with smols as your subject.
NospaceforGd
— Noah Berlatsky
hawk wings opening my mind — John Pappas
relationshipwrecked
— Ravi Kiran
A monster
made of belief
— Steve Bowman
redacting the free wor(l)d
— Roberta Beach Jacobson
bleeding into darkness war
— Mariangela Canzi
unusual Comet sighted ... with antlers
— John H. Dromey
tireq — Nicholas De Marino
qeaq tireq — Nicholas De Marino
qroq-qeaq tireq — Nicholas De Marino
comp_ete— Nicholas De Marino
no et al at all — Nicholas De Marino
winter solstice
time :: less
— Helen Buckingham
dripping ocean pearls of consciousness
— Ash Evan Lippert
sleep / a lightless / prism
s t r e t c h i n g f o r p e a c e yoga
— Norma Bradley
AI helpdesk on-time wrong solutions — Douglas J. Lanzo
verifying conspiracy theory unchecked algorithm — Douglas J. Lanzo
night winds intransitive verb
— Ron Scully
bluebird's birdsong pluperfect tense
how wide the wrong word
I'm stuck in this noun
dull December unexpectedly a dandelion — Tony Williams
can afford dandelions not roses
— Robert Fleming
O, marrow Life of bone
— Samantha Lucia
Qwerty of days
— Mykyta Ryzhykh
not too tight wedding ring
— Olivier Schopfer
firehawk —
Pluto’s guttural
resurgence
— Sheikha A.
white lies in dirty snow — Bonnie J Scherer
moonshine distilling night into day
— Bonnie J Scherer
regret slipping through afterthought — Jan Stretch
therapy repurposing our past — Jan Stretch
birds falling silent shadow docket
— petro c. k.
police state the obvious
machine doing the breathing stops
— Jessica Swafford
The next stupid thing tomorrow
— Sarah Mahina Calvello
Different kind of same
Purgatory or something new
Marginal
ized.
— naomi olivia
may the force bewitch you
good enough...
isn't always good.
— Keith Snow
out of office
intern’s mind
— Joanna Ashwell
badgers on the wild side
brushstrokes shadowing the moon
The moon casts an epilogue
— Eliana Jacobs
riding
shotgun
wolf moon
— John Pappas
anywhere not everywhere crow song
kissing cousins tomorrow's holy war
— Peter Jastermsky
daily double disappearing the neighbors — Peter Jastermsky
midday
half
of nothing done
— M. R. Pelletier
old well
the pebbles
echo
dreaming amongst other incandescent stars
— Oana Maria Cercel
wayward star trail
Orion’s detour
under where is over there
overwatered my vase now empty
— Tazeen Fatma
offering crumbs late-stage capitalism
— Stephanie Zepherelli
Pam pulls the cover-up
— Mary Oishi
cash in kash out
pardon the swamp
— Kimberly Kuchar
the peasant we
— Jerome Berglund
seminal latin roots
quantum humanity-
erratum.
— Partha Sarkar
light switch 40 watt fireflies
— Elliot Diamond
oiling
xylophone bones
vitamin D
our last conversation in screenshots
— Vijay Prasad
inkblot shapeshifting my shadow
— Hifsa Ashraf
delusional circle of crows moon
sunrise
the thunder
in light
growls in neglect —
artist’s stomach.
frog jumps wait for it
— Darrell Petska
fish market
I follow
Jesus
— Flory Untanu
hidden still rambling in moons
— Sherry Reniker
fault lines forever changing — Jan Stretch