when you say “I don't know” you're not lying
~Keith Snow
the bird breathes with wings of hope
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
daddy longlegs steady as he goes
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
be ready your driver is three strawberries away
~Keith Snow
heaven is born for its own crucifixion
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
another day
adding to the list
why, why and why
~Biswajit Mishra
Nasal
Passage
follows her nose
her deviated septum
leads her astray
~John H. Dromey
Ripple
Hear, see, write
Hear, see, change
See, think, change
Think, change
Hear, change
back
~Biswajit Mishra
crystal-clear dreams
I fall asleep wearing
my glasses
~John J. Dunphy
Bargaining with a hawker
And underlying him
I get repentant and
Search for the hawker
To overvalue my cognition.
~Partha Sarkar
the
seagull doesn't know that it can't fly, so in the end it flies
the
feathers were left lying on the windowsill
feathers can no
longer be considered feathers due to the absence of a bird
feathers
can turn into a souvenir
feathers can turn into an ornament of
an ancient person
feathers can turn into an anthropologist's
find
feathers can turn into anything
but where has the bird gone now?
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
Sweeping away the innocent dead birds,
The bastard wisdom:
Not my stupidity, El Nino causes
The birds' death
From / in heatwave.
~Partha Sarkar
birds die like dots
on the horizon of a sky
pierced by military missiles
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
dusty webs
and the husks of flies
cedar chest
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Chore Embellishment
Light bulb is replaced.
Dawn returns to universe.
Christ has returned.
~Chad Parenteau
writing a haiku
in the snow
the dog pees
~Noah Berlatsky
catching
large-mouthed
bass as his wife gives birth
fisherman
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
Cold skin learns to warm bones
Another star falls from the sky to the ground
Another bone falls into the autumn coffin
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
"you call that a eulogy?!"
minister interrupted by
the
deceased
~John J. Dunphy
tired photons fly
into the forever dark
end times
~David
C. Kopaska-Merkel
