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 toward intuition. No reason or verseto choose either traveled road...
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 tranceSmiled, showing her soul,And finally landed on earth.
'When we are...
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 away atour core persistentlytill our bones...
COFFEE AND BEANS by John Dorroh
“Daydreams, Day-drinking, and Dingoes”
1.The red dirt in Australia looks like clown lipstick.The tour guide places his cap upside down on the stepsfrom the belly of the inside of the misplaced shark of a bus.I...
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 had his heart, clung to his soulAs the salty tears...
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 wordsMingles and shiftsLetters rub offLetters are addedThe word meets friendsHolds...
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 left of Earth in the name...
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,
and the rain and leaves falling
in unison but not of equal parts –
maybe a hundred raindrops...
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
rainy citygray on grayblack streetsclouds pressed lowshoulders in the misteach puddlea fluid fingerprintreflectingjagged photosof...