jellyfish just add water
~Keith Evetts
her milk chocolate passport says she's soft
~Richard Magahiz
many elephants
migrating across my eyes
searching for water
~Anthony Ward
Surreal morning—
A hazy dream
rests quietly
on my eyelids
waiting to crawl
into my eyes.
~Vipanjeet Kaur
spectral emission a ghost in the machine
~John Hawkhead
lightning storm —
somewhere the smell
of a fuse box
~Daipayan Nair
by lamplight
nietzsche
becomes me
~Kelly Moyer
mildewy the melody of closure
~Ranice Tara
autoimmune disorder it's always just me against I
~Mark Meyer
winged monkeys
swinging the jump rope
for Dorothy
~Eavonka Ettinger
a beehive cluster
in the closet –
grandpa's zoo
~Daipayan Nair
pandas
tumbling down
an avalanche
~Eavonka Ettinger
a foreign body
in my tea
I think he’s Latvian
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
full moon
witching hour
and they chant
spell the tea
spill the tea
~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
cat in a cape jumping over the gibbous mooncake
~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
bucolic forest walk tranquility 'til the nettle patch
~Mark Meyer
invisible hand
of the market takes away
the baby bottle
~petro c.k.
taping the pieces
of his letter
over his eyes
~Kimberly Kuchar
I sip espresso
and wait for the Colosseum
to fall
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
in the still
of darkness
a witch's
car goes
broom broom
~petro c.k.
Zumba!
Screw those lightbulbs!
Screw the world!
~Mark Gilbert
couch potato
twice baked
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
sea turtles
saving the world or
something
~Eavonka
Ettinger
swarm
of flies—
mourners
with agenda
~A.J. Anwar
lying awake
rusted key
opening nothing
~Kimberly Kuchar
she fishes
in her ancestors’
heads
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
sleep talking
to a brick wall
and they live
happily never after
therapy
~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
cold room
he juggles with my
psychology
~Ranice Tara
pad thai and chocolate cheesecake self-destruct
~Mark Meyer
triple chocolate muffin
all the gloop
in the final mouthful
~Mark
Gilbert
under the stairs
whispers
inside the walls
giggles
between her ears
nothing
~Kimberly Kuchar
time travels . . .
ancestor’s gum
on my shoe
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
roaring waves
how quietly the shores
let go
~Arvinder Kaur
evolution
I want more hands
the next time
~Minal Sarosh
one
worried toad
I work for the sun
~J. D. Nelson
bathing in the moon's echo mushrooms
~Rich Schilling
laughing
buddha
ah! to know nothing
as well as he does
~Kenneth
Slaughter
tiny
clumps
in the litter box
ignoring
what I can
on my to-do list
~Kenneth Slaughter
hushpuppy
a whimper
in the night
~Kelly Moyer
five fleas fleeing
the crime scene
as the itch
takes a paw
into its own hand
~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
hoping there’s no sequel serial marriages
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
because
on starry nights i breathe like a black hole
~Minal Sarosh