Minus ten degrees outside, inside
I ice a fractured wrist.
~Nolcha
Fox
the
full moon casts a blue color on a broken heart
~Nani Mariani
Creepy baby, crawl
up the window, hang from the ceiling,
with sinister smile and demon eyes.
They locked you up this Halloween.
But you will escape by late spring
to eat flies.
And
tourists.
~Nolcha Fox
new year starts
with the same stupidity
and continues
with
the same stupidity
~Rupa Anand
Thoughts are disheveled
and so is my hair.
Ends split for cover
hiding under blankets,
cowering
from light.
~Nolcha Fox
Why am I
not what the world sees?
How long before
the monster in the mirror
becomes
this failed me?
~Nolcha Fox
clashing
with my Hawaiian shirt
his
vacation plans
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
Where I’m going I
bring only what I need
a portion of me
suitcase full
of nothing, empty
of embrace, I simply
chase down a corridor
waiting to return
to
the me I left behind
~Julie A. Dickson
staycation
every room comes with a cat
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
new year meows
not the same old kibble again?
aren’t
we getting something new?
~Rupa Anand