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

 

gunboat diplomacy

biggest navy wins

— Douglas J. Lanzo

 

software patch

bookending Waymo tailspin

— Douglas J. Lanzo

rational discourse

Waiting for Godot

— Douglas J. Lanzo

 

wishing star

if only

— Joanna Ashwell

the river

becoming geese

— Joanna Ashwell

odd socks maybe tomorrow

— Joanna Ashwell

 

also yearning cricket song

— Bruce H. Feingold

assassin nation the lies we tell

— Bruce H. Feingold

 

mortal remains the last option

—John Hawkhead

 

heavy soil the weight of forever

—John Hawkhead

 

supernova an explosion of daffodils

— Vandana Parashar

 

a bee on cloudberry 9

— Kimberly Kuchar

 

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.

— Keith Snow

 

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?
 

— Jerome Berglund

 

Moirai- Threads of Life

— Debadrita Sarkar

 

tides roll in — pugilist shore.

— naomi olivia

 

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

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Twinkle twinkle little wrinkles

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

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

— 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