Hotel Note
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
dust motes
in a sunlight shaft
this rhetoric
of existentialism
every now and then
~Arvinder Kaur
It don't mean a thing
if Buddha ain't got that
zen,
so blow that green smoke!
~Morley Cacoethes
Tell me, cat, when you
reincarnate, will you come
back as homeless me?
~Morley Cacoethes
Gritting My
Rodent-Resembling Teeth
Triturating my
rodent-resembling top teeth on
their nether, underneath
counterparts
gritting them like a tree’s
bark against a saw,
like a nail file against a
cat’s overly sharp claws,
I wither myself away into
ivory shards;
Admittedly, when I have no
sustenance I gnaw
on my body’s infinitely
available flaws,
until I’m left dismantled
in my own boneyard.
~Mira Fox
The Very Itch of Me
within
the shadows i lurk and when you least except it there i am floating
upon you with
deepening
urges desiring in impaling you –annoyingly hovering over you
constantly dancing
about
you –longing to be near and close as your ear humming my cravings
in touching you
–everywhere
anywhere you leave expose to me; legs arms fingers lips neck and back
–your skin
so
erotically appetizing –exciting me into a frenzy of implying and
suckling upon you –tickling
your
toes nibbling at those tender lobes exploring all of you –i
loiter in stalking you till i pounce
drinking
you in filling myself full of you sharing the very disease of me
–then taking flight only
to
return –addicted to the very DNA of you for our bond is strong
–such intimacy we shared
having
left my mark upon you –causing you to recall remembrances in the
very itch of me.
~Michael
Butkovich
long after
the ink has dried
family, still
~Jennifer Gurney
The Good Fight
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
Collapsed squares become
wrecktangles.
~Richard Kostelanetz
Death’s life’s “bottom
line.”
~Richard Kostelanetz
Robots are modern slaves.
~Richard Kostelanetz
Some speak nonsense
unintentionally.
~Richard Kostelanetz
Correct punctuation goes
unnoticed.
~Richard Kostelanetz
Whatever is was possible.
~Richard Kostelanetz
rumbling thunder
silencing all the chattering
for once
~Tejendra Sherchan
green skies
I try to remember
Earth
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
lost colony
naught but shard and bone
a howl at the moons
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
between wishing and
fulfilment Saturn’s transit
~Arvinder Kaur
green spring loving the
alien
~Scott Wiggerman
hidden tunnel
light on the other
side of the world
~Scott Wiggerman
responding
to an ancient call
mourning doves
~Scott Wiggerman
closed casket
a fly mourns
to get in
~Scott Wiggerman
the bulldozer
is faster than the tree
law of the jungle
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Deadline
May 1: Nominate (2024) poetry
for the Dwarf Stars 2025 Anthology
http://www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html
