law(less)makers


Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

 

I’m in trouble, expectations

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Cricket song a lost hymn

Sarah Mahina Calvello



inviting elements to cleanse doorways

Sarah Mahina Calvello



People outed as struggling

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Searching for my lullaby insomnia

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Morning light evoking new dreams

Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

her                                           moon

            senryu            cheshire

                        smirk

Lisa Sparaco


brick

building

minds

within

brick

Patricia Nellene Deal



flowers arranged

on

false

bottoms

Patricia Nellene Deal

 

the prICE of life


— Martina Matijević

 

enflamed crowd—

ICE-melt

Albert Schlaht

 

exclamation point of no return

Alvin B. Cruz

 

"Breaking News"

is broken.

Keith Snow

 

vanishing with the ice allies

Melissa Dennison

 

on the menu martial law

Stephanie Zepherelli

 

diplomacy on the menu

Morag Elizabeth Humble

 

in the polyglot's mouth earth

Ruth Holzer

 

land lines laid to rest


— Jan Stretch

 

othering into a new year


— Vishal Prabhu

 

after the golfers leave butterflies

Ravi Kiran



circular pursuit of superlatives

Ravi Kiran

 

device after device separated together

Maya Daneva

 

your attention to this madder

Mary Olshi

 

one poet sho(r)t

petro c. k.



all-life crisis

petro c. k.

 

mind the depth in it

Biswajit Mishra



clearly invisible point of view

Biswajit Mishra

 

times are strange troll song

Dan Schwerin

 

 

other than fascist terms

Dan Schwerin

 

Arctic snap, sound of white

Chen-ou Liu

 

gunboat diplomacy

biggest navy wins

Douglas J. Lanzo


 

software patch

bookending Waymo tailspin

Douglas J. Lanzo



rational discourse

Waiting for Godot

Douglas J. Lanzo

 

wishing star

if only

Joanna Ashwell



the river

becoming geese

Joanna Ashwell



odd socks maybe tomorrow

Joanna Ashwell

 

also yearning cricket song

Bruce H. Feingold



assassin nation the lies we tell

Bruce H. Feingold

 

mortal remains the last option

John Hawkhead


 

heavy soil the weight of forever

John Hawkhead

 

supernova an explosion of daffodils

Vandana Parashar

 

a bee on cloudberry 9


Kimberly Kuchar

 

skipping the light fanaticism

Reid Hepworth

 

devil on first name basis

Vishal Prabhu


Trial? No, justICE.

Nicholas De Marino

 

stray breeze

autumnal stars

fall

Gareth Nurden



winter tide

smoothing moon

seaglass


— Gareth Nurden

 

e-filed morsels of spite
 

Catherine Bileti

 

four-leaf clover —

                     wilts like three.

naomi olivia

 

vertical blind regiment of shadows

M. R. Pelletier

 

 

breath

after breath

until

Emil Karla

 

It's a smols whirl

after-all


— Keith Snow



Fat chance wins marrow finish.

Keith Snow

 

in human the ought knot


— Jonathan Humphrey

 

feigning happiness a fool’s folly

Stephanie Zepherelli

 

distance runner            becoming                     distant

Scott Wiggerman

 

back in stocks

Jerome Berglund



representation . . . is rudolph canonical?
 

Jerome Berglund

 

Moirai- Threads of Life

Debadrita Sarkar

 

tides roll in — pugilist shore.

naomi olivia

 

apparitions of numbed needs

Scott C. Holstad


dredge

the

ive

for

rr

Noah Berlatsky

 

a breath of fresh here


Tony Williams



filling nothing

with everything

jazz


Tony Williams

 

nativity angel

scrolls through

reviews

Helen Buckingham

 

nothing keeps happening

John Paul Caponigro

 

my wings returning swans


— Anne Fox

 

apology for inflation


— Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

into blood drops the ball

Richard Magahiz

 

watch this          space

thomas david

 

Merry good enough new year’s

 
Sarah Mahina Calvello



Satire of uncertainty

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Twinkle twinkle little wrinkles

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Moon bone icicles poking me


Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

just for kicks Moulin Rouge

Rupa Anand

 

plankton—

a nightly ocean

parade

Sheikha A.

 

the wind beneath your whales


Scott C. Holstad

 

dawn execution then paint butterflies


Stephen Toft

 

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

Ash Evan Lippert

 

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

Ron Scully



how wide the wrong word

Ron Scully



I'm stuck in this noun

Ron Scully

 

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

petro c. k.

 

machine doing the breathing stops

Jessica Swafford

 

The next stupid thing tomorrow

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Different kind of same

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Purgatory or something new

Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

Marginal

           ized.

naomi olivia


may the force bewitch you

John H. Dromey