Not what I mental.

~Nicholas De Marino



all the gory allegory

~Nicholas De Marino



overcreactionable godsense

~Nicholas De Marino



uploading cognitive offloading onboarding

~Nicholas De Marino


anxiety my gnawed cradle

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

 


avoidant attachment my kryptonite

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

 

Noah needs new story arc.

~Keith Snow

 

blinkin’ not Lincoln - nod

~Marjorie Pezzoli



golden plated phone not shipped

~Marjorie Pezzoli

 

hawk one syllable

talon two

~John Levy


break-up note her split infinitive

~John Pappas 

 

David Attenborough still living planet

~Ian Willey



struggling to find arrhythmia

~Ian Willey



the last morning star wars

~Ian Willey

 

Earth happily ever after humans

~Jacek Wilkos

 

blue skies the understory green

~M. R. Pelletier

 

existence

shuffles on tiny

legs

~Vijay Prasad

 

shaping a prophecy autumn fog

~Vandana Parashar 



across the spectrum fluid morality 

~Vandana Parashar


space

the word

refuses

~Jacek Margolak



misprint

my name

moves slightly

~Jacek Margolak



stiff leather

remembering the bone

~Jacek Margolak

 

slime mold popular mechanics


~Jerome Berglund



overton window

stained glass

~Jerome Berglund



portion control

learned 

helplessness

~Jerome Berglund


spawning salamanders nationwide

gerrymanders

~Douglas J. Lanzo

 

ElbridgeGerrycutoffhis

head

~Noah Berlatsky

 

gentle acupuncture she recites Basho


~Norma Bradley


karaoke curriculum


~Marjorie Pezzoli



in peach moment    now


~Marjorie Pezzoli

 

Collecting words I cannot say


~Merilee Johnson

 

paper-thin his see-through lies 


~Stephanie Zepherelli



everythingatonceneurodivergent 


~Stephanie Zepherelli

 

ctrl alt-right delete

~thomas david


war games play criminal injustice

~Jan Stretch


grass stains paying the price


~Pris Campbell

 

after a long winter daffodils


~Joseph P. Wechselberger

 

newborn...

the boat’s

slow rocking


~Eugeniusz Zacharski


blossoms the lips of twigs


~John Levy


Sky photobombing sky sunset


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Bird chorus weekend minuet


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Old laughing lady crows screech 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

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

 

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

 

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


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