calling bell
nobody comes in
one goes away
~Bipasha Majumder
Cyborgs
without brains
smoosh.
~Noah Berlatsky
3 am -
a shriek from the top
of the wardrobe
~Juliet Wilson
hissing
from
a straw blade
a praying mantis
gets
eaten by one
less pious
~Christina
Chin / M.
R. Defibaugh
Hives
Who
says the monk cilice shirt,
hair of sackcloth, penance
ash,
cannot be simply fleas at work,
lashes, stripes, the
welts of bites,
or even hives, bee-keeping work?
~Stephen
Kingsnorth
air raid
a mum-to-be writhing
in labour pain
~Bipasha Majumder
new rank promises of war
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
picking willow twigs
from the frozen moat
(he’s no jesus)
~David Cox
hototogisu
I still don’t understand you
hototogisu
~Noah Berlatsky