spaceship window ……….
no more ups
no
more downs
~Mark Gilbert
fingers
touching keyboards we become A.I.
~Colette Kern
malaria
sun the bite of betrayal
~Susan Burch
The stolen apple
oh
so juicy.
One bite
he choked.
~Peter Blau
Faster, giant trash truck, faster
squirrels
are gaining on you!
~Steve Van Allen
Endception
notes
on the notes
on
the notes
~Jerome Berglund
helpfully debunking
conspiracy theories
conspirators
~Jerome Berglund
I’m not a perfectionist
just because I use tweezers
to
pick up confetti.
~Nolcha Fox
Ephemera
In quiet moments, he makes
tiny bubbles with his mouth.
It’s as though they might be
spirits yet to cross over
or innocents yet to be born.
I yearn to capture each one
within a dusty mason jar,
just as i might
a hastily-scribbled poem
or
this post-apocalyptic firefly.
~Kelly Moyer
daddy
long legs and I have nowhere to be
~Patrick
Sweeney
avant garde
of entitled characters
finding the lost city
of creatures
half-human half-troll(ey)
buried
in the amazon jungle
of boxes and receipts
failing at
closing
credits
~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
he
fed the banister to the furnace for us
~Patrick Sweeey