the wolf eating grandma dementia

susan burch



no goals stagnating water

susan burch

 

The Beatles warned us


Scott C. Holstad

 

the sun whispers remember.

linda m. crate



vampires gnaw on my brain.

linda m. crate

 

a moon-woman hybrid

John Grey

 

measuring

eternity . . .

graveyard sundial

Bill Waters

 

after you the new star

Mona Bedi

 

commentary

reduced to

thumbs up

Shannon Wallace

 

Nothing like mandatory nothing

Heath Brougher

 

nuclear but you yawn

Tiffany Rindler

 

politically correct bias


— Ravi Kiran



raven's wings painting the dusk


— Ravi Kiran

 

dusk

one window still on

Jacek Margolak

 

lost stories the mourners weep

Pris Campbell

 

life’s story       the unsaid

Arvinder Kaur



all the same no apology

Arvinder Kaur

 

  o

g  ne

Noah Berlatsky

 

questions without answers shooting stars

Alvin B. Cruz

 

orbs of starburst hoyas

Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

 

Stars are dizzy drunk

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Turning mess into message

Sarah Mahina Calvello


Censorship of spring

February

Mykyta Ryzhykh



Poem from nothing


Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

peevishly published not accepted

dan smith



his speeches all in con-text

dan smith

 

regal sweat on cornered prey

Melissa Dennison

 

everything is bad bunny

Ian Willey



stars fading to nothing lasts

Ian Willey



my life so mid life

Ian Willey

 

shelling peas empty inside

R.K. Singh

 

gardening shears

gloved in moonlight

Joanna Ashwell



the snow moon

holding owl

Joanna Ashwell

 

online scrolling dead seas

John Hawkhead

 

deep freeze

the air

italicized

John Pappas

 

tinkling colonies of intelligent glass

Richard Magahiz



love my clockwork jellyfish

Richard Magahiz

 

where

here

ere

re

e

Noah Berlatsky

 

ballot paper or scratchcard?


— Oscar Luparia

 

snowflakes

angels appear

Cezar Ciobîcă

 

influenczar


susan burch



new jester emerging foligarchy


susan burch



come on don’t be koi


susan burch

 

oblivion a dream's fading horizon


— Alfred Booth


together waiting for your angels


— Alfred Booth

 

the ventilator exhales autumn wind

Bryan Rickert



structuring the chaos picnic ants

Bryan Rickert

 

living

or dead

winter things


— Tony Williams

 

 

tachycardia ticking time faster


Jan Stretch



criminals in every crack down


Jan Stretch




after the fall body work


Jan Stretch

 

box turtle thinking outside the…

Ron Scully

 

No problem, piece of snake

Scott C. Holstad

 

completely incomplete

thomas david



doomscrolling avoiding the void

thomas david



nothing left in the tanka

thomas david

 

today’s special crimes against humanity

Vishal Prabhu

 

foolishness seeking meaning in life

Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

 

congress one-handed clapping

Mark Gilbert

 

color                                  only

                      seeing

blindness                          white

Peter Jastermsky



no one's perfect first draft


— Peter Jastermsky



first amendment whatever you say

Peter Jastermsky

 

social media glorification of snark

dan smith



of mICE not men

dan smith

 

rat

not so big

dead

 
Bob Carlton

 

burnt toast  : :  assuming tundra

our thomas



e=[run d]mc2


— our thomas

 

shooting stars

nothing

to wish

Mona Iordan

 

text exchange opposable thumbs

Tim Cremin

 

 

ancient starlight modern sky

Tim Cremin



open gate whirligigs

Tim Cremin

 

alone together


— Bonnie J Scherer

 

Scared to fall apart

Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

interviewing myself

                                    I wasn't home


— Keith Snow

 

The dove

has flown

away


— LynnWhite

 

madman changes my mind map


— John Hawkhead

 

video recordings @ lethal rounds


— Scott Holstad

 

domino effect

my equilibrium

teetering

Cynthia Anderson

 

 

didn’t the roses let him


— Cynthia Anderson

 

strange comfort

in never

Gloria Glau

 

my skull

a space station


— Nicholas De Marino



gut(ted) feeling


— Nicholas De Marino

 

year of the horse therapy


— Michael Henry Lee



red-ac-dac-dac-dac-dac-ted

Michael Henry Lee


skylarking back into blue

Joanna Ashwell



birdsong carrying me further

Joanna Ashwell

 

my childhood forest 404

Hynek Koziol

 

living room

full of urns


— Faith-Anne Bell

 

frozen tits — ides of winter.

naomi olivia

 

gardeners give peas a chance

John H. Dromey

 

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