imaginary friend we visit the invisible zoo
~Sherry Grant
a hundred billion galaxies this is going on your permanent record
~Patrick Sweeney
her destiny
the length
of her new year’s noodles
~Wai Mei Wong
just
looking
at his pink eye
mine itches
~Randy
Brooks
abandoned house
a shadow leans
on the piano
~Arvinder Kaur
I
love opera
Even the high screechy parts
Those especially
~Jennifer Gurney
When
the marching bands halted
And the speeches began
We found
out who was in danger.
~Doug Forrest
voices in my head fighting off ads
~Sherry Grant
the only place you walked
you wanted me to be
the monster,
don't pretend to be afraid
of the darkness;
it's the only place you've ever
walked.
~linda m. crate
ticking clock
images framed in the window
run backwards
~Kavita Ratna
God
Shrugs
They think I know
what they don’t know
But I only know what they think
I
shrug the rest off
~Pam Makin
No-name papers
Why even bother to do
The work and turn it in
~Jennifer Gurney
waiting for word
on poems I sent:
awaiting return of summer
too
~Wayne F. Burke
Blank
Page Syndrome
words undulating
hazed as gnawing worms
on a
writhing page
~Steven
M. Gerson
subtext—
what matters the most
in a conversation
~Mona Bedi
lit fest
gossip of a plagiarist
getting the award
~Daipayan Nair
Che Guevara
too big
for my bookshelf
~Daipayan Nair
octopus
curls
how
do you do that
with your hair
~Mark
Gilbert