I’m Your Venus
pushing the limit
the
weep of a bomb
before it explodes
~Robert Moyer
a
lie tightens
the muscles in her face
congressional hearing
~Robert Moyer
every year the mirror
gets
older
~Noah Berlatsky
I can’t rest in peace
Instead haunting
In
retribution
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
let
the crows haunt you
singing of my magic
until you go
mad,
and i will dance on your
bones
in a red dress.
~linda m. crate
dancing
with the moon
no one listens to
my problems,
but the stars are
pretty tonight;
don't ask me why
i would rather dance
with
the moon than you.
~linda m. crate
the
dreams tell me
i am lestat's daughter,
and i don't question them;
i have always had fangs
and
a need for attention.
~linda m. crate
another
dimension
i opened another
dimension,
crawled in those bones
instead;
like my odds better
there.
~linda m. crate
the
yowling cats
hiss my concern
over
the world.
~linda m. crate
i
can't love you anymore
because that means
abandoning
me.
~linda m. crate
family photo
her shoulder blocking
half
of her husband
~Ingrid Bruck
dusty apartment
before she moved in
after
she left
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
swamp tour
only a few tourists
eaten
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
holy war swag . . .
upon each wrist a bracelet asks,
“What
would Genghis Khan do?”
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
spring flowers
preparing
for
nuclear winter
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
last gasp
the constitution’s DNR order
written
with AI
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
paper
cup—
bubble gum
underneath
~Elliot Diamond
Get your bug ku
to the annual Hexapod
Contest!
https://ento.psu.edu/about/facilities/frost/hexapod
ideally
not for predation the ironclad beetle
~Tejendra Sherchan
sitting
on the broken curb of childhood
~Patrick Sweeney
my
inner yes to the first dandelion
~Patrick Sweeney
yellow
forsythia interfacing with the cyclone fence
~Patrick Sweeney
he's
fairly certain his family would turn him in for the reward
~Patrick Sweeney
with
two forms of ID where and when I could not prove who I am
~Ron
Scully
snowing apple blossoms the weather
report is on to the bombing
~Ron Scully
extragalactic
night the moons shine down alone
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
quantum universe
I reset my watch
again
~John J. Dunphy
mouse!
my cat pounces
into
an empty box
~John J. Dunphy
March
a bungee jump of
unpredictability
~Jennifer Gurney
where have we been
all these years
pretending
we are okay
~Jennifer Gurney
https://nordeweeklyupdate.my.canva.site/aoty
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