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.
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.
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?
Moirai- Threads of Life
— Debadrita Sarkar
tides roll in — pugilist shore.
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
Twinkle twinkle little wrinkles
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
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
dripping ocean pearls of consciousness
— Ash Evan Lippert
sleep / a lightless / prism
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
how wide the wrong word
I'm stuck in this noun
dull December unexpectedly a dandelion — Tony Williams
can afford dandelions not roses
— Robert Fleming
O, marrow Life of bone
— Samantha Lucia
Qwerty of days
not too tight wedding ring
— Olivier Schopfer
firehawk —
Pluto’s guttural
resurgence
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
machine doing the breathing stops
— Jessica Swafford
The next stupid thing tomorrow
Different kind of same
Purgatory or something new
Marginal
ized.
may the force bewitch you
good enough...
isn't always good.
out of office
intern’s mind
— Joanna Ashwell
badgers on the wild side
brushstrokes shadowing the moon
The moon casts an epilogue
— Eliana Jacobs
riding
shotgun
wolf moon
— John Pappas
anywhere not everywhere crow song
kissing cousins tomorrow's holy war
— Peter Jastermsky
daily double disappearing the neighbors — Peter Jastermsky
midday
half
of nothing done
old well
the pebbles
echo
dreaming amongst other incandescent stars
— Oana Maria Cercel
wayward star trail
Orion’s detour
under where is over there
overwatered my vase now empty
— Tazeen Fatma
offering crumbs late-stage capitalism
Pam pulls the cover-up
— Mary Oishi
cash in kash out
pardon the swamp
— Kimberly Kuchar
the peasant we
seminal latin roots
quantum humanity-
erratum.
— Partha Sarkar
light switch 40 watt fireflies
— Elliot Diamond
oiling
xylophone bones
vitamin D
our last conversation in screenshots
— Vijay Prasad
inkblot shapeshifting my shadow
— Hifsa Ashraf
delusional circle of crows moon
sunrise
the thunder
in light
growls in neglect —
artist’s stomach.
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
please send the future back
man
god