smols is an eclectic poetry journal featuring ultra-shorts, five words max. No themes.
Submit up to five untitled pieces. Email to fivefleasitchypoetry@gmail.com with smols as your subject.
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
good enough...
isn't
always good.
—
Keith Snow
out
of office
intern’s
mind
—Joanna Ashwell
badgers
on the wild side
—Joanna Ashwell
brushstrokes
shadowing the moon
—Joanna Ashwell
The
moon casts an epilogue
—Eliana Jacobs
riding
shotgun
wolf
moon
—
John Pappas
anywhere
not everywhere crow song
—John Pappas
kissing
cousins tomorrow's holy war
—Peter Jastermsky
daily
double disappearing the neighbors
— Peter Jastermsky
midday
half
of
nothing done
—M. R. Pelletier
old
well
the
pebbles
echo
—M. R. Pelletier
dreaming
amongst other incandescent stars
—Oana Maria Cercel
wayward
star trail
Orion’s
detour
—Sheikha A.
under
where is over there
—Robert Fleming
overwatered my vase now
empty
—Tazeen
Fatma
offering crumbs late-stage capitalism
—Stephanie
Zepherelli
Pam pulls the cover-up
—Mary Oishi
cash
in kash out
—
Mary Oishi
pardon the swamp
—Kimberly Kuchar
the
peasant we
—Jerome Berglund
seminal
latin roots
— Jerome Berglund
quantum
humanity-
erratum.
—Partha Sarkar
light
switch 40 watt fireflies
—Elliot Diamond
oiling
xylophone
bones
vitamin
D
—Elliot Diamond
our
last conversation in screenshots
—Vijay Prasad
inkblot shapeshifting my
shadow
—Hifsa
Ashraf
delusional
circle of crows moon
—Hifsa
Ashraf
sunrise
the
thunder
in
light
—Bonnie
J Scherer
growls
in neglect —
artist’s
stomach.
—naomi olivia
frog
jumps wait for it
—Darrell Petska
fish
market
I
follow
Jesus
—Flory Untanu
hidden still rambling in moons
—Sherry Reniker
fault
lines forever changing
— Jan Stretch
god
man
god
—Vandana
Parashar
comfortzonedout
—Ravi
Kiran
please send the future
back
— Noah
Berlatsky
climate change storm
troopers
—dan
smith
geometry
of sorrow parallel lives
—dan
smith
tired rattling bones of
days
—Sarah
Mahina Calvello
Strangers
haunting metro corridors
—Sarah
Mahina Calvello
Night
chill electricity of leaves
—Sarah
Mahina Calvello
mixing
different teabags party animal
—Sarah
Mahina Calvello
puzzle
pieces bones to pick
—Sarah
Mahina Calvello
politically core wrecked
—John
H. Dromey
circumstantial
evidence ... smoking paper shredder