transient history drained pale and empty
~Scott
Holstad
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~Scott
Holstad
predestined shoes
little boy sez
// <but mama>
// if they’re always & forever, where do
>>> s0les
// come from before they become us?
~Scott
Holstad
french
fries
the pigeon’s time square
in beer cans
~Elliot
Diamond
the numbers after
a decimal
point…
endless pi
~Elliot
Diamond
new horizons . . .
the evolution
from spoon to spork
~Kelly
Sauvage Moyer
wardrobe update . . .
i crochet myself
a wise woman’s shawl
~Kelly
Sauvage Moyer
hearthfire . . .
the clockwise stir
of a mouse
~Kelly
Sauvage Moyer
baseball dads
we
discuss our pre-son
bellies
~Joshua
St. Claire
boardroom
the-before-and-after
of his bad breath
~Joshua
St. Claire
cantaloupe sky
the
just-so
of his dog’s porcelain teacup
~Joshua
St. Claire
crimson
tide
a seagull pecks
at a tampon
~Adele
Evershed
chokeberries…
the
Man tries to strangle
Epstein survivors
~Adele
Evershed
rubber dinghy
only I’m between
migrant and immigrant
~Adele
Evershed
political fog
imagining ourselves
in Canada
~Roberta
Beach Jacobson
autumn
equinox
looking at my beer glass
half full
~Oscar
Luparia
Curly's response
to tyranny
'nyuk, nyuk, nyuk'
~Patrick
Sweeney
in an unsanctioned state
mowing circles 'round each and every dandelion
~Patrick
Sweeney
perplexing
how charlatans with the kaboom gene
get
millions to participate in their madness
'Another one of the oddities,' says Mr. Wise
~Patrick
Sweeney
fridgelit
floor
a silvery flake —
wriggle jiggle
writhe
~Nicholas De Marino
shorn
bee
mumbles
on autumn shore
~Nicholas De Marino
a
prose poem
on
the vulture refusing
politicians
~Tejendra
Sherchan
rebranding department of war now
~Tejendra
Sherchan
I
disrobe into a misprinted vowel
~Vijay Prasad
Autumn
heat
Somewhere
between you and me
Distant moon
~Sarah
Mahina Calvello
Unsure
if I miss it . . .
The
spiced disarray
Of a coffee shop
~Sarah
Mahina Calvello
The
unknown
Ideas
used for a map
In the dizzy night
~Sarah
Mahina Calvello
missile
fall
stray
dogs and bodies
in the street
~M.
R. Pelletier
border
crossing
the
weight
of the sun
~M.
R. Pelletier
objectively
calling
an invader
a soldier
~Jerome
Berglund
there!
in
a brush of streetlight
van Gogh sunflowers
hollandaise sauce
~Shane Coppage & Jerome Berglund
the
bad
comes
with the good
joined at the head
~Jerome
Berglund
I
dreamed I was a sack of clothes.
And woke
and did not know
where to drop my bones.
~Noah
Berlatsky
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