A SWELL GUY by Omar Reyes
86’d
i don’t writeanymore instead i useemojis andpost cat filtered selfies with approvinglycategorized stylishcorpses who dream of findinglove behind blackmirrors to satisfy the façadeforced upon by thegiant glitchwhich gnaws...
KETTLE by Pernille AEgidius Dake
The Lord’s Prayer Trumped
Our Faker, who art in the chalk-white House,pumped is thy name, crumbly is your fame.From thy sand trap, thy will be done to what’ll be...
NET WORTH by Sam Barbee
Deadly Sin #8
I confront the White Bull of the page - Earnest Hemingway
My cherry blood thuds against good judgment.Recollection of that begrudged learned lessonbouncing...
SOMETHING IS HIDING by Sharon Lopez Mooney
Something is Hiding
The hint
She stops mid step caught by a taught line of memoryit runs along the skin of her collar bone where...
I CAN TELL NO-ONE, EXCEPT THIS POEM by Susan C. Waters
Age is Creeping Toward Me
Like the Old Maidin a children’s deck of cards,it was hidden, going round and roundthe table until the last card:a dowdy, with a misshapen...
THE WORD by Eve Rifkah
The Word
The word fell into a vat of wordsThe vat so full sometimes a wordSpills over and is lost
The word drifts down through other...
SOFTLY ABOVE by Roger Singer
SOFTLY ABOVE
the last clouds of dayare rooms overthe ocean,curtains of moisturereabsorbed,exposing aa carpet of stars,glistening sweetnessnourished by angelsas we trespassbeneath heaven
WET
THE LAKE by Nardine Sanderson
Roses bloom in darkness too.
Loves rose grew from her lips to speak of loss and courage through what leaves the body but never dies
She...
BAR-TAILED GODWIT by Ranjith Sivaraman
Bar-tailed godwit
‘What happened?You are lost in deep thoughtsLooks like you made a long solo tripLike a bar-tailed godwit'I asked my beloved.
She continued her meditating...
THE SEVENTH DREAM by Byron Hoot
A Moveable Meditation
It is the kind of day best taken n
inside a truck -- heat on, wipers
against the windshield,