on the tip of the tongue
we never knew how to say
goodbye properly
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
upside-down birds fall up
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
snowflakes you also sailed here
in silence and melted under my feet
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
egg-balancing
her uterine tilt debunked
at 23.5 degrees
~Kelly Moyer
shadow work
sorting the seeds
of her 8-ball zucchini
~Kelly Moyer
raindrops on glass
alien planets
and moons
~Melissa Dennison
the look of love
a spider sneaks
into the house
~Melissa Dennison
two steps
a cockroach escapes
my wrath
~Tejendra Sherchan
Kolkata
before and after 2024
jading
jades
jade
jade.
~Partha Sarkar
Fuel dies- goes back again dead to pyre.
~Partha Sarkar
On Display
Barbs on the barbed wire fence
pretend they’re blackbirds
clinging to telephone lines
paralleling the road except
nothing startles barbs into flight;
they remain attached
frozen like dead blackbirds
on museum display.
~Diane Webster
Driftwood
Beached sun-bleached tree
abandoned atop the sand dune
squiggled with sand waves.
A millennial shore
of memory postcards
mailed along the way.
~Diane Webster
Disappearance
Car tracks in snow
drive off
into the sky’s horizon;
snowflakes lay a mantle
across the road;
trees witness nothing.
~Diane Webster
Return Answer
A road curves through
a canyon of buildings.
Does it go the distance?
Does it fall off the flat world?
Does it flow into the gutter
and disappear down the drain?
Will someone return
with an answer?
~Diane Webster
one
catastrophe,
another this haunted place—
but how vivid
now
~Aaron Anstett
rocks
trapped in a stream
singing a song home
one grain at a
time
~Sam Calhoun
morning
comes cloudy
waiting for the pistol snap
the sun never
rises
~Sam Calhoun
chronic illness
i don
my invisibility cloak
~Kelly Moyer
existential dread
a slug
in the ant trap
~Kelly Moyer
eyes wide
as the saucer she flew in on
the poet’s kitten
~Kelly Moyer
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