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

 

no ellipsis


period


exclamation point


Keith Snow

 

gopher it

John H. Dromey

 

painting freshly recycled

                                             paradigms


Scott C. Holstad

 

I think, I doubt.

Steka Vanra

 

thinking I’m alone gathering crows

Thomas Tilton

 

first snow angels in waiting

Bryan Rickert

 

my life’s pages unexamined


Timothy Daly

 

TV off survival skills


— Oscar Luparia

 

autumn leaves us leafless

Jennifer Gurney

 

digging science with toy shovels

Elliot Diamond

 

strumming my nodes therapy guitarist

Rupa Anand

 

8--infinity on its toes

Herb Kitson



brevity--too wise for words

Herb Kitson

 

fitting room

nothing

fitting

Joseph P. Wechselberger

 

star freckled child fast asleep


Sam Calhoun

 

p     u
a     n
r      i
a     v
l      e
l      r
e     s
l      e

Alvin B. Cruz

 

error 404 haiku not found

thomas david



new pants increasing the bandwidth

thomas david



nothing

but the truth

wikipedia

thomas david

 

mountains                                           

                   \                                     

                       nobody talks about

                                                         \

                                                              valleys.


naomi olivia

 

common (non)sense


— Martina Matijević

 

ballerina shooting off the ankle

Vishal Prabhu

 

"I"

a point

of view

M. R. Pelletier

 

sun buzz dog day cicada

Tim Cremin



big splash crummy dive

Tim Cremin

 

who to be late for

Thomas Smith

 

dark writing   :   black ink

Mark Gilbert

 

keeping in shape bonsai

Jan Stretch

 

monochromatic circus

clowns don't smile

Jacek Wilkos

 

[{(!)}] unmasking

Pravat Kumar Padhy

 

co_ _ection

Olivier Schopfer

 

orange blooms reliving the past

Sarah Mahina Calvello



despair another name for love

Sarah Mahina Calvello



parallel universe, inside of atoms

Sarah Mahina Calvello



junk food venting in person

Sarah Mahina Calvello



jagged

edges of days

thorns


Sarah Mahina Calvello



deconstructing the metaphor making stew

Sarah Mahina Calvello



pumpkins on porches mismatched shoes

Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

the

algorithmic

life

of strays

Nitu Yumnam

 

the        s          p           a         c          e              silence     takes


— Ron Scully

 

bedridden teddy bear and i

Isabella Mori



coffin

the face

of mystery


— Isabella Mori

 

within a manager’s control dead fly


Ernesto P. Santiago

 

acorns landing percussive wind chimes


Ed Bremson

 

why

        no  t

                 rust


— John Pappas

 

fly ball the sparrows

Joshua St. Claire



deus ex machina moon


— Joshua St. Claire

 

jagged edges – cutting paper dolls

Jiel Narvekar