common
assault and battery life
~John Hawkhead
memorandum
of understanding nothing
~John Hawkhead
cherry
blossom
fooling
nobody
~Stephen Toft
garden
buddha
has moss
for hair
~Stephen Toft
In a Zen Garden
The gnomes
all seem to dance.
I become a prayer.
The world a chalice.
The wounded sky
grows faint and Earth
but
shadow of a scar.
~dan smith
feeling invisible
every piece of mail in my box
not
for me
~Jennifer Gurney
the seeker of the origins of the Universe,
finished
third on Jeopardy
~Patrick Sweeney
because they let him take long lunches
he
never calls in sick at the drone factory
~Patrick Sweeney
studying the dorsal wing of a fly
he
said: 'you always knew how to have fun'
~Patrick Sweeney
Secretive
Ready
stretch the tally of the years, ready beckon and tantalize, ready buy
with an open heart, a box to conceal, make or break the truth on the
table
when your nerves are shot and moments are walking with
crutches.
~John Vlachos
old graveyard
something sprouts
beneath
the oaks
~Deborah Karl-Brandt
sea waves
lap the rocky cliffs
and rebound...
my heart finds its way
to
AI love
~Tejendra Sherchan
Anxiety of Influence
Pound was a fascist ass;
Shelley a philandering jerk.
Yeats was a weird misogynist.
Ted Hughes was even worse.
Poe was racist. Stevens too.
Great poets white, male and dead—
away with them! I will live
and
write doggerel instead.
~Noah Berlatsky
strangled my voice out back
at last it’s not me
talking
~Noah Berlatsky
she told me she saw
faces in the rock, but
she didn’t know if
they
saw her
~Tom Blessing
M
You sleep around my sleep
because you dream of me
while I dream of you or
because the other way around or
because you went to sleep first
and
woke up later.
~Noah Berlatsky
off grid
a snail goes
its
own way
~Melissa Dennison
Tiredness
Tiredness
has no last chapter.
~ Partha Sarkar
