midnight––
their car doors sounding
like
divorce
~Robert Epstein
crushed seashells
glisten in moonlight
the
shapes of pain
~Stephanie Zepherelli
Valentine decision
to hell with it
she
Dear Johns them all
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
invisible webs
caught in lies
we
tell ourselves
~Stephanie Zepherelli
the
romanceI thought would last forever
now washed up
awaiting
the
next tide
~wanda amos
frogs on fire
white lies
pants sizzle
in an old pond
~Roberta Beach Jacobson/Kelly Sauvage Moyer
dejà
vu
it’s turtles
all the way down
~Joshua St. Claire
his last request
a packet of cigarettes
in his coffin
on his grave
a
tobacco bush
~wanda amos
snuck
cigarette
the end
we never expected
~Joshua St. Claire
birdshit
denied nomination
as if a poet
were no more than his tail
~Jean-Paul Moyer/Kelly Sauvage Moyer
if
only
poetry
could
drown
out
~Noah Berlatsky
October night––
the cricket gets in w/o
a
background check
~Robert Epstein
an old woman
with headscarf and pearl earring
looks
back at herself
~Wendy Beach
just now a girl's
long headscarf crossing:
the
light changes
~Sherry Reniker
ordinary nori
embracing the chip
in her chopsticks
expired squid salad
~Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer
gas
station fried chicken
a methhead smiles to reveal
the
crescent moon
~Joshua St. Claire
black
plastic trash bag
by the side of the highway
the
who’s-in-it
~Joshua St. Claire
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