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

John H. Dromey

 

 

diplomatic impunity

John H. Dromey

 

this sentence doesn’t fully stop
 

— James Penha


pommel horses never neigh


 James Penha


dizzying . .  .                            

the Tru(mp)-man show


— Oscar Luparia

 

wHATEver YOU say…


Tony Williams

 

memory loss

forgetting to finish…

Douglas J. Lanzo

 

I'll ask her Alaska

Olivier Schopfer

 

guillotine

I’ve said

too much

Sharon Ferrante

 

map of bones without compass

David Anson Lee

 

passing moments

here and

now

Herb Tate

 

fear, their dread and butter

Nicholas De Marino

 

social undistancing

thomas david



there and back again again

thomas david



plot twist another spinoff

thomas david



chest hair waxing lyrical

thomas david



[haiku removed for security reasons]

thomas david

 

rain falls as reign falls

Jessica Swafford



Wedded bliss? Hit or miss.

Jessica Swafford

 

fireflies —

or falling stars?

naomi olivia

 

butterfly wings swirling fractals

Elliot Diamond



moon blinking coded shadows

Elliot Diamond

 

city windows

see no evil

Diane Webster

 

dreaming in glass city night

Vijay Prasad

 

the choices we make animagus

Sharon Ferrante

 

roadkill’s feathers fluttering

Ravi Kiran

 

crows gathering alibis

Bryan Rickert

 

green onions

jazz saxophone

vibrato

Randy Brooks

 

Leading,

dead horses

to water.

Keith Snow

 

coincidence I think bot

susan burch

 

snowbound

and still

no vodka

Florin C. Ciobîcă

 

nuthin

sumpin

nuthin no more

 

Mark Gilbert



cold war collateral damage


Mark Gilbert

 

power outage

polishing the moon

Helen Buckingham

 

paw in palm pawmystery

Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

 

Love writing short poems

Antje Bothin

 

autumn leaves winter

Marc Brimble

 

friendly firewall


 
Anne Fox



seeking not love but likes

Anne Fox

 

Trump’s SNAP

Crackle and Pop


— Patricia Carragon

 

birthday celebrating my mortality


— Martina Matijević

 

tanka ... haiku adjusted for inflation


— John H. Dromey

 

hope

the conspiracy

of atoms

John Pappas

 

asleep all summer longing

Ash Evan Lippert

 

alone

moon in the clouds

Angiola Inglese

 

black hole

swallowing

black hole

Alper Ghuchlu

 

ants

eat

you

no

picnic

Noah Berlatsky

 

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