death and pestilence
served
with a side order
of
bittersweet chocolate
~Lafcadio
Gallows Café
Take your biscotti--
it’s time to go:
I hear the hammers
banging.
Hurry it up
and finish your cup:
I’d hate to be late
for the hanging.
~Frank William Finney
Constellations
of bluebottles
infuriate the future
~Christian Ward
pruning
my fear into a lion-shaped topiary
~Lafcadio
waxing moon—
crushed
tall boys dot
the playscape
~Melanie Alberts
my
reflection
in
a cup of tea
offers
me a cup
~Lafcadio
frost
on the window --
pulling strands of silver hair
out of the plughole
~Keith Evetts
bike path--
everybody watching out
for the rapist
~Ruth Holzer
silent
mosquito
alighting on my forearm
its gift left behind
~Brian Barnett
gnats swarm loud sunlight
~Mariel Herbert
one size
fits all--
I.C.U. bed
~Ruth Holzer
Relay of Love: for Helena Qi Hong
Living on the opposite sides of
The world, we take turns to go
To bed, each waking up
To become part of the other
In the same dream, even
About the same moment
Day & night
Though, alas, on different beds
In
different time zones
~Changming Yuan
helping Bob
the demogorgon with
summoning Pazuzu
the final project,
but first: cupcakes
~Richard Magahiz
childhood travels
paddling the wheel of
a sewing machine
~Daipayan Nair
pastorale
high
precision missiles
miss the bull
~Keith Evetts
bull
I imagine him
not charging
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
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