blue glow of flickering meteors

~Alper Ghuchlu

She left one red shoe.

~Russell Dupont

azure wings wake willow bones

~Melissa Dennison

 

playing pinball the chaos inside

~Kevin Browne

 

liberty

or 

statue? 

~Partha Sarkar

void begins to wonder

~Jordan Curry

 

pigs fly:

the apologist

apologizes

~Morag Elizabeth Humble

depression my psychic vampire

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

 

Absentee, running in place.

~Chad Parenteau

 

death poem a distant lawnmower

~Stephen Toft

twilight the poacher’s silent song

~Stephen Toft

lilacs

an abandoned

tax return

~Stephen Toft

 

east of eden in weeds

~Joseph Salvatore Aversano

doubt a litmus papered krishna

~Joseph Salvatore Aversano

an old pond jumps in

~Joseph Salvatore Aversano

 

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

 

a promise kept first crocus

~Bryan Rickert

 

clinging to

spring light

dew

~Gareth Nurden

drying

my winter garden

sunburst

~Gareth Nurden

old well

buying

a wish

~Gareth Nurden

river pebbles my lost youth

~Mona Bedi

falling out of love wildflowers

~Mona Bedi

green leaves brown azaleas

~Ed Bremson

 

cease failures 

~Marjorie Pezzoli

unhinged priorities bombs away

~Marjorie Pezzoli

truth unsocial pirate in command

~Marjorie Pezzoli

 

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