mountain boots outrunning a troll


— Joanna Ashwell

 

the sense makes no truth

— Ian Willey

two-party system failure

— Ian Willey

rich white mendacity

— Ian Willey

 

No, More Wars

    dripping

    oil

— Chen-ou Liu

 

starfish

neither nor

— Kim Goldberg

every

poem a

                  jailbreak

— Kim Goldberg

 

this is not a poem


— Vishal Prabhu

 

Code: spring

— Mykyta Ryzhykh

Circus performer eats bear

— Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

apocalypse now or never

— thomas david

everything bagel something’s always missing


— thomas david

 

healthcare for all my delusions

— Peter Jastermsky

 

iso 

        pod

rolls          by

       blue

                berry

— Shannon Wallace

 

terror cell checks and balances


— Jerome Berglund

Souls?!

In THIS

market?!

— Jerome Berglund

 

moonshadow the rhetoric of want

— John Pappas

passing us laughing mountain stream

— John Pappas

 

a stone’s throw war gods

— Anne Fox

 

blood moon no end in

— Sara Winteridge

 

gnarled tree root broken synapses

— Jessica Swafford

 

poking the possibly nuclear bear

— Morag Elizabeth Humble

 

spraying graffiti hair

subway mouse

— Douglas J. Lanzo

 

smols poems eat like popcorn

— Keith Snow

           After J. D. Nelson

More buck for your bang?

 
— Keith Snow

 

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