his anger the stranger I married
~Mona Bedi
zombie Queen still has the wave
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Alexa
the parents they no longer need
~Mona Bedi
old boulder this shiftless existence
~John Hawkhead
becoming the night a blackbird’s song
~Mona Bedi
hello
hello
hello
the empty echo
across our universe
~Eavonka Ettinger
motion sensor
blinking lights awaken
the android
~Eavonka Ettinger
Insomnia.
I get so much done.
Until I don’t.
~Noah Berlatsky
bedtime
I point the spider
toward the basement
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
Space Problem
Every century or so
he occupies a new body;
under the floorboards,
the old ones are piling up.
He hates to throw them out,
the recycling center won't take them,
burning's illegal inside city limits,
and they're already 5 deep
in the family plot out back.
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
microplastics
invading the bloodstream
how it started
~Eavonka Ettinger
distant
bombing —
the
tangerine sunset
goes
up in smoke
~Mona Bedi
All Souls' Day
I place flowers on
a forgotten grave
~John J. Dunphy
utamakura
struggling for words
in the graveyard
~John Hawkhead
a cacophony of caws
flock of starlings
squawk their daily prayers
~Steve Van Allen
Parameters
She curtsied him away,
when he danced
too near her.
~Keith Snow
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