this sentence doesn’t fully stop
 

— James Penha

pommel horses never neigh


 — James Penha

dizzying . .  .                            

the Tru(mp)-man show


— Oscar Luparia

 

wHATEver YOU say…


— Tony Williams

 

memory loss

forgetting to finish…

— Douglas J. Lanzo

 

I'll ask her Alaska

— Olivier Schopfer

 

guillotine

I’ve said

too much

— Sharon Ferrante

 

map of bones without compass



— David Anson Lee

 

passing moments

here and

now

— Herb Tate

 

fear, their dread and butter

— Nicholas De Marino

 

social undistancing

— thomas david

there and back again again

— thomas david

plot twist another spinoff

— thomas david

chest hair waxing lyrical

— thomas david

[haiku removed for security reasons]

— thomas david

 

rain falls as reign falls

— Jessica Swafford

Wedded bliss? Hit or miss.

— Jessica Swafford

 

fireflies —

or falling stars?

— naomi olivia

 

butterfly wings swirling fractals

— Elliot Diamond

moon blinking coded shadows

— Elliot Diamond

 

city windows

see no evil

— Diane Webster

 

dreaming in glass city night

— Vijay Prasad

 

the choices we make animagus

— Sharon Ferrante

 

roadkill’s feathers fluttering

— Ravi Kiran

 

crows gathering alibis

— Bryan Rickert

 

green onions

jazz saxophone

vibrato

— Randy Brooks

 

Leading,

dead horses

to water.

— Keith Snow

 

coincidence I think bot

— susan burch

 

snowbound

and still

no vodka

— Florin C. Ciobîcă

 

nuthin

sumpin

nuthin no more

 

— Mark Gilbert

cold war collateral damage


— Mark Gilbert

 

power outage

polishing the moon

— Helen Buckingham

 

paw in palm pawmystery

— Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

 

Love writing short poems

— Antje Bothin

 

autumn leaves winter

— Marc Brimble

 

friendly firewall

 — Anne Fox

seeking not love but likes

— Anne Fox

 

Trump’s SNAP

Crackle and Pop

— Patricia Carragon

 

birthday celebrating my mortality


— Martina Matijević

 

tanka ... haiku adjusted for inflation


— John H. Dromey

 

hope

the conspiracy

of atoms

— John Pappas

 

asleep all summer longing

— Ash Evan Lippert

 

alone

moon in the clouds

— Angiola Inglese

 

black hole

swallowing

black hole

— Alper Ghuchlu

 

ants

eat

you

no

picnic

— Noah Berlatsky

 

turning away from your hurricane

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

too much news spin cycle

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

full moon’s quiet composure

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

letting the moment breathe stillness

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

moon illuminating fairy dust

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

the audacity of hope winter

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

masquerade paper faces on parade

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

things unraveling but new shoes

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

craters filling up teeth

— Jiel Narvekar

parent(thesis)

— Jiel Narvekar

 

shutdown

repro for flts canx

— Maria Tosti

 

dry creek bed going nowhere

— Joan C. Fingon

 

sunrise nevertheless


— Susan King

 

Chinese checkers losing my marbles

— Ruth Holzer

 

What if, Time?


— Randy Streu

 

desert tumbleweeds our silence

— Juliet Wilson

 

tariff wars constant autumn


— dan smith

 

 

hate speech his ravings

— dan smith

 

solving for fragile X

— petro c. k.

midnight with moves like Jager

— petro c. k.

 

somewhere in snow . . .

dinosaur mist

— Nicholas Klacsanzky

 

greatest sacrifice the last macaroon

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

close but distant payday

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

howling rain you were alive

— Oana Maria Cercel

 

death everything else prologue

— Vandana Parashar

 

another name

over mine…

tattoo

— Antonio Mangiameli

my bones

heavier…

birthday

— Antonio Mangiameli

 

shuffling through leaves second childhood

— Julie Bloss Kelsey

angry eyes unbuckled polar vortex

— Julie Bloss Kelsey

 

that snipped flower, death

— Ed Higgins

frogs

unsettling

the rising moon

— Ed Higgins

 

Pisces

fish

out of water

— M. R. Pelletier

change

new delusions

for old

— M. R. Pelletier

the astral body untethering stardust

— M. R. Pelletier

 

deportation yellow petals of dandelions

— Bruce H. Feingold

 

daring to resist ignorance

— Nicoletta Ignatti

 

put back the kcolc

— Noah Berlatsky

 

noon

shadows of trees

shorten

— Gareth Nurden

an old friend

reappears

snowstorm

— Gareth Nurden

 

system downgrade redacting reality

— Stephanie Zepherelli

 

I am! (I think)

— Chad Parenteau

 

 

chainsaw c'mon trust me

— Tiffany Rindler

night ripped off the bone

— Tiffany Rindler

 

state

and

oppression -

friendly

fire

— Partha Sarkar

death -

the

next

email.

— Partha Sarkar

 

meaning hesitates where body begins

— Vijay Prasad

 

werewolf fashion set in stone

— Nicholas De Marino

Is this it ..? Yup.

— Nicholas De Marino

 

chain link life

— Anne Fox

 

cleaving the universe pomegranate

— Elaine Pelletier

 

shot into silence

— Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

when rejection strikes     buttercups

— Maya Daneva

fog lifts one becomes someone

— Maya Daneva

 

ashes

flaming memories of home

— Kala Ramesh

 

all sex shop lingerie half-off

— John J. Dunphy

 

keep it short

yes

— Tuyet Van Do

 

phantom limbs

tapping the window


— Joanna Ashwell

 

death -

an

endless

full stop.

— Partha Sarkar

 

haunted house never again alone

— Martina Matijević

 

sleepwalking, we halve the distance

— Samantha Malay

 

midnight creaks

the house

sleepwalking

— Cynthia Anderson

 

(w)reckoning

— Lorelyn Arevalo

 

splash—bigger than a frog

— Tim Cremin

midsummer nightstream

— Tim Cremin

horror movie extra cheese

— Tim Cremin

 

technically it’s the future now

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

fireflies in a tree Disneyland

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

in between

truth and

lies

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

no olive branches just hemlock

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

twisted that treacherous park strolling

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

sparrows spread their mortal wings

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

adulthood excited about sweatpants

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

the chemistry of the moment

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

heavy days they creep around

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

what does it mean? nothing

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

sunrise quietly boiling eggs

— Susan King

blackbirds borderline raucous

— Susan King

crooked gravestones straightening my spine

— Susan King

 

bawlroom

— Tracy Davidson

 

for now i am winter

— Ben Malay