Green Head
reaching
across
uncanny valley
from the wrong side
~Nicholas De Marino
Obstruct
My Vision
Through a cracked lens
I know him, truly.
Pedestal man
So close, I see
Appalling beauty
Others
mistake.
~Emily Keverne
Stall
the Dawn
One sheep… two sheep… treesheep… feep…
Lethargic, but I cannot sleep.
I try to make a game and keep
Awake, to lure the Sandman’s creep
But, though I’m tired enough to weep
The
night succeeds.
~Emily Keverne
Tiger,
Tiger
Burn. As the Man churns
Timber from your forestry.
Burn,
burn prettily.
~Emily Keverne
slipping
on black ice masks
~John Hawkhead
roar...(p)atriarchal
(m)edical (s)tudies
~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad
third time today
resisting the urge
to
quote Kris Kristofferson
~Patrick Sweeney
war everywhere
and I'm writing about nobody noticing
my
one blue sock
~Patrick Sweeney
Snow From Snow
The snow
covers up
all the places
where my dad was.
Then it grows wings
and
is not there.
~Noah Berlatsky
Perspective
From this angle the cat
Is very large and orange.
From some angles she is less orange.
From
all angles she is large.
~Noah Berlatsky
fly in the ointment...
guess
I'm stuck with you
~Mark Meyer
backhanded
compliment she calls me pluperfect
~Mark Meyer
death bed
no less
a
fool
~M. R. Pelletier
"social" media
the lie
we
tell ourselves
~M. R. Pelletier
first frost
field mice
raid the root cellar
~Belinda Behne
The
Dream of Art
I dream I am in the house of a famous artist.
I cannot leave because I cannot find my shoes.
I search for hours but I cannot find my shoes.
I
need better dreams.
~Noah Berlatsky
Day of the Dead
no different
doomscrolling
~Helen Buckingham
Return
home
Return
home safely dead before cremation.
~Partha Sarkar
Milky Way hosting
four hundred billion planets
still
we are alone
~Tejendra Sherchan
billboard
moon
she
crams civilization
into a gas station rubbish bin
~Joshua
St. Claire
hypochondria
I
wonder what kind of flower
I’ll be
~Joshua St. Claire
the
once when orange was a color but not a scent
~Joshua St. Claire