an ecstasy of claviers trembles

~Richard Magahiz

has Hellcat got your helltongue?

~Richard Magahiz

 

immigration unknown language of joblessness 

~Biswajit Mishra

 

playing cops and robber barons

~Nicholas De Marino

 

elsewhere the shape of goodbye

~Nalini Shetty

 

checks and balances both obsolete

~Ian Willey

no turn on red states

~Ian Willey

bisesquicentennial the bombs bursting midair

~Ian Willey

 

nothing to do list

~Anne Fox

 

drought...

Basho's frog

mute

~Cezar Ciobîcă 

 

more caffeine for anarchy

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

fictional reality collides

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

candy-coated misery 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

go west young moon

~Cynthia Anderson

 

between lines a parallel universe

~Ravi Kiran

 

 

 

choosy choosers choose destiny

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

gooseflesh on water, cold rain 

~Clarabelle Miray Fields

 

sound of clouds gathering

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

the past is another country

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

spiritual match yes for chocolate 

~Peter Jastermsky

  

At center, full, vacuos


~Francisco Soares

  

unique, just like everybody else

~Tim Cremin

 

night lamp       f  i r  e  f  l i  e  s

~Joanna Ashwell 

 

your name

deleted

itself

~Jacek Margolak

moss on the password

~Jacek Margolak

 

say no 

start a fire

~Tiffany Rindler

dew

but i can

wait

~Tiffany Rindler

 

cop-out: leave them wanting less

~Merilee Johnson

 

cicada—
the politics
of family

~Aidan Castle

 

shedding my skin mangelwurzel

~Melissa Dennison

 

dry river...your deafening silence

~Melissa Dennison

 

today—

tomorrow forgot 

my address

~Jim Niffen 

 

small potatoes food for thought

~Mark Meyer

my superior inferiority complex

~Mark Meyer

tabula rasa my latest chapbook

~Mark Meyer

just this once ad infinitum

~Mark Meyer

 

hollyhock hocus pocus 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

  

elegant anger like a swan.

~linda m. crate

 

larks 

overlook 

tears 

under missiles 

~O.P. Jha 

 

owls in all four walls

~Ron Scully

stars, for all you do

~Ron Scully

 

where the last word belongs

~Ron Scully

 

food fish food

~Jerome Berglund

 

the news today, like yesterday.


~Shontay Luna 

 

whispers  across void two particles

~Vijay Prasad 

 

beach chairs

still

the sea

~Gareth Nurden 

 

after ripple

water

levels

~Elliot Diamond 

 

 

The

       Floor

                 Can

                         Take
 
                                  It

~Clare Kitt

Moving faster by sitting still

~Clare Kitt

 

finding my legs childhood leeches

~Adele Gallogly

hotel loneliness leaf-toed gecko

~Adele Gallogly

 

what butterflies remember

~Kimberly Kuchar

 

the time a butterfly takes
  

~K. Ramesh

 

DIY ASAP

YOLO

fly high

~Maria Tosti

 

not totally delusional 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

life beneath the sand

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

words made of air

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

A gerbil running amok 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

you’re clever handed 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

wasting time running away
 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

tempted by unknown fruit 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

monotony of broken clocks 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

too much out there 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

long gaps of nothing

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

one perfectly fat

         toad

~Kris Lindbeck 

 

peach of mind

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

 

where we were once wildflowers

~susan burch 

 

Sunday finest

a camellia poses

~Isabella Mori

 

left unsaid the unsaid

~thomas david

accepting

all cookies

santa claus

~thomas david

after the birdsong    this silence

~thomas david 

 

birds in search of wings

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

a voice for no one

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

gravity

the ultimate gossip 

~Leonard Zinovyev

silence speaks in knives 

~Leonard Zinovyev 

 

even though wars nodding daffodils

~Arvinder Kaur 

 

flies buzzing around the choice


~Vijay Prasad

 

spidersilk kimono and moonlight slippers

~Richard Magahiz

 

post-traumatic

psychotrope

semper

fidelis

 

~Richard Magahiz

 

we only

planted one . . .

zucchini!

~Debbie Strange

 

 

technicallyitsstilloneword

~Alper Ghuchlu 

 

Journey -

 

                                            There

 

                              and

 

Back

 

Again

~Julie Parker-Kinsey

 

wOe

~Sarah Paris

 

Stars the rest is silent

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

surrounded but still unseen

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

reflecting lies 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

quantum dawning over the algorithm 

~Vishal Prabhu

 

controlling the narrative desert wind
 

~Vandana Parashar

with a mind of its own wildfire

~Vandana Parashar

 

transcending a problem artichoke 


~Stephen Toft

 

Rain wash my blues away

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

A thread worth pulling on

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fly speck biscuits of childhood 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Be my fancy fig newton 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

fan setting 

poetry form

haikool

~Keith Snow

One and a half entendres?

~Keith Snow

  

force of nature forces issue

~Nicholas De Marino

 

too particu(late)

~Reid Hepworth 

 

 

his farewell speech

quacking duck

~Albert Schlaht

 

thunder clap

the house

blinks

~Maxianne Berger

 

dearly bee-loved flowers

~John H. Dromey 

 

Ambidextrous:

both hands

be write

~Laelette Vanhook

 

 

fairy star within me

~Joanna Ashwell

 

 

 

twins in the suspect lineup

~Ravi Kiran 

 

the flavor

of regret

habanero

~Tré

 

IN

UN

(Out)

DATED

Story

~Keith Snow

 

alternate universe

no Oxford

comma

~Gordon Brown 

 

 

this poem isn't conceptual enough 

~ Elena Shakhnovsky

 

don’t 

want

to

do

list

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

 

 

canceling yesterday today

~Kimberly Kuchar 

 

knowing she's overripe fruit flies

~Peter Jastermsky 

 

 

Zen garden

Planting

Empty ideas

~Anna Goluba

 

Tiramisu and impatient dreams

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

It’s about the cat

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Single step journey

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Dirty trick of nostalgia 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Days drifting on the page

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

vacuum 

never 

complains.

~Partha Sarkar

cognition-

a 

triangle.

~Partha Sarkar

 

uppotting 

tomato seedlings…

spring sun


~Joshua Gage

 

fireflies —

better than your fireworks.

~naomi olivia

 

waking to a crescent moon

~Raji Vijayaraghavan

vertical beams fading into sunrise

~Raji Vijayaraghavan 

 

this

and that

day moon

~Tom Bierovic

what

happens next

snow globe

~Tom Bierovic

 

mosquito bites connecting the dots

~thomas david

hedgerows of emptiness

~thomas david