I tell myself
it was just an earring–
but I lost you again
~Jennifer Gurney
Black Friday
woman pushes
her shopping cart into
a homeless encampment
~John J. Dunphy
the grays in my eyebrow silverfish
~Susan Burch
kingfishers arc-welding shards of sky
~John Hawkhead
Taylor Swift fans too chimney swifties
~Susan Burch
This is not a swipe.
~Noah Berlatsky
breaking silence fallen leaves
~Marc Brimble
paper or plastic Barbie’s watching
~Susan Burch
30%
chance
just as I sit on a bench
100% rain
~Christa Pandey
Frost flowers blooming
Ghosts growing in the cold air
The sunlight takes them
~Sam
Calhoun
blood-letting
selling
A positive
to pay the rent
~John Hawkhead
Nembutal nights
slipping into deep currents
of wish fulfilment
~John Hawkhead
Roach Lines
Open the kitchen drawer
there you are
slipping across silver cutlery
like a pitch pebble
skimming a lake
or
beneath the dishwasher
among
crap dirt bogies debris
~Marc Brimble
exchanged words
a gradual vowel-shift
in endearments
~John Hawkhead
rolling news
the world spins on its axis
repeating itself
~John Hawkhead
Big Brown Eyes
Don’t believe that sweet expression.
Notice that his claws are splayed.
He just buried the cat.
~Nolcha Fox
Great poems
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