dressing up as an upcoming birthday to scare an existential crisis out of myself
~Martina
Matijević
his ego built brick by brick
~Bipasha
Majumder (De)
RETURN OF THE MEASLES?
ten fleas leap from the bed
~Pris
Campbell
my body's atoms billions of years old
~Tejendra
Sherchan
afternoon chat
in front of the fireplace –
poison tea
~Nicoletta
Ignatti
a grave miss stake
confusing left and right
~dan
smith
I imagine
turning the Bailong Elevator
into a cosmic one
~Tejendra
Sherhan
what fun
to lose myself
in
disarray
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
softest breeze
i wish you had been
my
first husband
~Tiffany Rindler
his focus was entirely on the 'why' nobody bothered
to
shoo the fly from the gorgonzola
~Patrick Sweeney
expect
real-time shortages of tear gas and concertina wire
~Patrick Sweeney
the boy with freckles wants to know why
we
ruined the world
~Patrick Sweeney
whispering
the names of pallbearers in the green kitchen
~Patrick Sweeney
writing
in my notebook is making everyone nervous
~Patrick Sweeney
Post Mortem: the last person he googled was himself
~Patrick
Sweeney
clink
of cans
nestling into place
pantry-geist
~Nicholas De Marino
a
small boy
searches the field for it
the Great Pumpkin
~Joseph P. Wechselberger
four street lamps –
my shadows
all
the same
~Antonio Mangiameli
“A nation is made of borders!”
No.
Of
neighbors.
~Noah Berlatsky
daring thoughts
how we’re naked
beneath
our clothes
~Peter Jastermsky
