elegant updo
the crumb
of
her biscuit
~Kelly Moyer
two
three four five
sex
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
red wax lips
the better to kiss
you
with my dear
~Eavonka Ettinger
autumn leaves
the poet's
low-hanging
fruit
~Kelly
Moyer
sudden death
how to handle her
vibrator
~John Hawkhead
dipping fingers
in hot candle wax
paraffin
tips
~Eavonka Ettinger
frost
on the ground
Mars looking down
an ambulance idling
the
only sound
~Mark Gilbert
To
Where It's Made
criss
cross
applesauce
look at these
dirty knees
milk milk
lemonade
permission slip
field trip
to
the fudge factory
~petro c.k.
behind curtain 1 or 2
escape hatch
to another world
~Eavonka Ettinger
never
so long
give me
some mates
at the game
give me a beer
& some banter
give me yesterday
because
i
can’t wait for tomorrow
~Geoffrey Aitken
inner child
travels to the future
begs
to return
~Eavonka Ettinger
Caging
vs Birding
I
am a cage, in search of a bird. — Kafka
Wherever my mind flies, it is still
Confined
Tightly to this world, this very cage of
Sensory & imaginative c e l l s
In other words, I is the cage, while
The
whole universe am a bird
~Yuan Changming
hiding
in the ballot box nuns
~Roberta
Beach Jacobson
wildflowers
the prairie nymph’s
crooked
toe
~Kelly Moyer
morning thaw
finally
she
knows
~John Hawkhead
the mad hatter sings on the corner to no one
~Joseph P. Wechselberger
fancy
kibble courting the mews
~Kelly Moyer
morning meeting my boss takes a call from his dandelion clock
~Joshua St. Claire
wingbeats of startled birds a child’s dream
~Joseph P. Wechselberger
free association fees
~Kelly Moyer
Freudian pink slips
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
impressions of the mime still in the air red balloons
~Joseph P. Wechselberger
you following the Latin nihilum nihil nil
~Joshua St. Claire
flying up the down escalator sparrow
~Joseph P. Wechselberger
the dew's going to do what it do
~Eavonka Ettinger
apple juice overflowing the cups of her brassiere
~Kelly Moyer
hitting high notes salpinx of bone
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
nimbostratus cranial suture
~Joshua St. Claire
open mic on the dark side of mars static
~Joseph P. Wechselberger
apparently
tenting our home won't
make it a circus
~Eavonka Ettinger
migraine
owning
someone
else's teeth
~Mark Gilbert