Our Merch: https://www.zazzle.com/store/five_fleas
the black and white of
childhood
bedtime
stories
we
were not told
~Kelly
Sargent
the
tomatoes
stabbed
in the garden
hailstorm
~Marie
Derley
les
tomates du jardin
attaquées
à l’arme blanche
orage
de grêlons
stubborn
grief
a
stream maneuvers down
through
the boulders
~Tejendra
Sherchan
unstitching
a
golden gown
death's
seamstress
~Robert
Witmer
dreams
clot
the
bloodstream of time
fighting
for peace
~Robert
Witmer
twilight
in
some hungry place
a
crow's demented cry
~Robert
Witmer
leverage
the
new synonym
for
extortion
~dan
smith
Confession
How
many deaths do you have every day?
Being
shrewd, I have stopped counting.
~Partha
Sarkar
sepia
ghosts
from
old albums peer
nameless
faces
~Debarati
Sen
No
more hiding
A
shift in my paradigm
Dust
begins to clear
~Sarah
Mahina Calvello
arriving
home
sitting
on the front fence
a
burglar's crowbar
~Tuyet
Van Do
i saw disjointed
broken
parts in chaste corners
frozen
images
~Scott
C. Holstad
remorse
feeling
the crunch
of
a snail
~Melissa
Dennison
the
fear this journey
stirs
in me is not really about
the
guns
~Kim
Goldberg
dreaming
of a masquerade ball vendetta
~Sharon
Ferrante
hospice
we come and go
~Roberta
Beach Jacobson
other
poems will be written trembling
~Scott
C. Holstad
waiting
to slide down the wall insomnia
~Vishal
Prabhu
twitching
eyelids committing dream crimes
~Scott
C. Holstad
revealing
her third personality heat lightning
~Kelly
Sargent
accommodation
nothing unreasonable
~Roberta
Beach Jacobson
fighting
in this forest if only Robin Hood
~Sharon
Ferrante
SLAVE
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~Scott
C. Holstad
lit
signboard
queuing
for fresh
emojis
~Vishal
Prabhu
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