THE CHAIN IN THE SKY by Uko Tyrawn Okon
THE CHAIN IN THE SKYby Uko Tyrawn Okon
Flowers are spreading a virusThat is what the experts call itIt makes people walk on a chainThat is one hundred feet...
ARMS OUTSTRETCHED by John Tustin
ARMS OUTSTRETCHEDby John Tustin
ARMS OUTSTRETCHED
Me withArms outstretchedAs if on the crossBut really waitingFor you to comeAnd be envelopedAnd protected andEncumbered by me.
OBSESSIONS by R. Bremner
OBSESSIONSby R. Bremner
Too many obsessions for one life to carrywill cause a back to droop eventuallyGood karma like good coffee is often hard to findwhen soaked in the...
MEMBRANE by Alfred Fournier
MEMBRANEby Alfred Fournier
Membrane
The cat had been missing for days.
Mom was home, behind French doors.Her hospital absence stretched, a membrane under each...
ENCLOSED BY LOVE by Nardine Sanderson
Land and sea when angels fall I did not fall to call your pain, or break ones heart so soft again, I felt such love within no doubtLike heavens precious rainA magical voice...
LIBERTY ATOMS by Christopher Barnes
Liberty Atoms 6 Cormorant beak-walked an eight yard string,Rebuking tide.Pratfalling crock – sauce duxelles.Maisie hassled tufts- Lost wit’s fingers.Sunset on a rubberstamp:“Everything seemed inevitable”.
Liberty Atoms 7Shellac discRumpled under needle,...
MEDUSA by Andre DeCuir
MEDUSAby Andre DeCuir
When My Father Calls
When my father calls, we talk of birds,how the blue jays cannonball,their large bodies splashingwater out of his birdbaths:old...
SAY ANYTHING by Austin Adams
SAY ANYTHINGby Austin Adams
Carrion Flower
Faint fragrance of aFlower too subtle forHuman sense.It is there.
What one cannot know,Call by any name:Iandipan,...
SLEEPY WHALE by Terry Brinkman
SLEEPY WHALEby Terry BrinkmanSonnet CCLXVIIBristles shining wirily in weak lightLady Chapel Jack Priest PeacockMotley affairs of a moss covered rolling rockLast swig of the Challis at twilightLoom of the Moon-lightPat of her...
TABLE FOR ONE by Alan Berger
TABLE FOR ONEby Alan Berger I’m lonely ButI’m well bredWell read Well fed My favorite position in bedIs laying aloneBeing off the phoneI’m lonelyBut stay out of my zoneI’m lonelyButI don’t like peopleThey accelerate my evilI’m...