Intertwined fingers stuck in tangled hair
And now she's a widow
~Mykyta
Ryzhykh
Someone is watering the lilacs that grew instead of a cemetery
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
And
the ant under your feet is me.
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
not in pairs
He bought a batch of identical pair of socks.
I told him I was going to put
all the left-hand socks in one pile
and all the right-hand socks in another pile.
It will be easier, I said.
He said ok.
~Marie Derley
the downpour
through my window
the scarred trees sway
by the clouds
a little rain
through my hatches
call me Admiral Nelson
and I'll build an island here
with a little rain
~Marie Derley
No
one will cry. This disappearance will be eternal. Like dew on a
mirror. Everything was
locked from the inside.
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
A
coded message was transmitted in the form of a corpse. It all started
when dad went to
get vodka and I didn't even know then that I had a dad.
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
the final judgement
according to religion, someday it will be the end of the world
the righteous rewarded and the wicked punished.
The question is, what are they waiting for?
~Marie Derley
lost and found
shopper asks about
his missing chakra
~John J. Dunphy
departing
geese my unfinished love story
~Mona Bedi
menopause
the changing shape of water
~Mona Bedi
scratching
round the corner of my thoughts a fly
~Katherine E Winnick
my body within these walls the skin breathes
~Katherine E Winnick
oak
moon dad tells me his life story
~Mona Bedi
this
wish to let go dandelion seeds
~Mona Bedi
river
stones—
i too become better
with age
~Mona Bedi
end of the year —
the last supper
of expired oats
~R. Suresh babu
Every year
is like the last year
but worse.
~Noah Berlatsky
