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