Poet Empty Bottle
~Michael Lee Johnson
ugh
go away
mirror
go away
ugh
~Noah Berlatsky
In Praise of Wooden Shoes or Where's a Luddite When You Need One
~dan smith
self-employed no one to complain to
~Stacy Taylor
we are the movies at God's multiplex
~dan smith
my eye-hops on her textual surface around the target words
~Vijay Prasad
68 years old
and don’t feel a day
over 67
~Stacy Taylor
Origami
If my paper hen could lay eggs,
how would the eggs be folded?
~Marie Derley
Hands
Guts in one,
the weight of the world
in the other.
So much to bear.
So much to feel.
Fingers twitching,
nails clawing.
Flesh against flesh.
Is this what a grip is for?
~R James Sennett Jr
shorter nights
little space for shooting stars
at our age
~John Hawkhead
we built gigantic engines
we travelled to the moon
we misunderstood Waste Not
~dan smith
if
it's true
what Christians say
I'm going to hell
~Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
mending an old quilt
each night’s sleep cycle
a little deeper
~John Hawkhead
shine on
forty-foot cowboy
exit now
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
foggy shore . . .
memory’s silence
eroding my belief
in
goodbyes
~Timothy Daly
Photon
Because the soul is light, scurrying from point to shadow,
because light can fracture if interrupted—
because the fracturing of light is accomplished by hanging
a simple glass charm from the curtain rail above my kitchen sink—
I think of you, driving down the mountain, the long, straight
road from map-point to city, your dashboard charm swinging,
your headlight fractured, your mirror cracked.
~Kathryn Reese
subglacial lake
the gelatinous maw
everts
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
unedited
I want to say love me
love my text,
consider converting
all the selfies
on my dating profile
to screenshots of poems.
~Kathryn Reese
blind date
she looks for
a way
to let him
down gently
~Randy Brooks
any old pot
of coffee
I drink it
on ice
the day after
~Randy Brooks
don’t think
of a monkey
too
late
~Randy Brooks
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