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anything you say think can and will be used against you ~Barrie Levine nautilus shell shaped by the waves my third ear ~Ron Scully sand fleas looking for some shade to touch down ~Ron Scully bangingmyheadagainstthewall a love story ~Stephanie Zepherelli causing a flap boxes opened upside down ~Stephanie Zepherelli a map of everything she has survived grandma’s face ~Stephanie Zepherelli electric…
error 404 — the bird’s nest in the satellite dish ~Jacek Margolak zoom call — my cat’s tail presenting ~Jacek Margolak delivery notice — the box already empty ~Jacek Margolak don't make me the punchline, i'm not here to be your joke. ~linda m. crate i'm a moonflower but the world only remembers sunflowers. ~linda m. crate don't miss me now my ghost is meant to haunt you. ~linda m. crate waiting…
bare bodkin fair point ~Jerome Berglund don't wanna know but need to ~Jerome Berglund in a fair and comely shape peacock tarantula ~Jerome Berglund solar eclipse dark shadows on my wall ~Bernadette O'Reilly mathematics one way the universe converses with me ~Tejendra Sherchan got no time to learn about wolves in the forest picking us off ~Jerome Berglund universal monsters nothing more dangerous…
W ind Chimes ~Michael Lee Johnson The wind chimes, silver-tongued on the balcony today, different sounds— cool, metallic laughter— in all different directions. My thoughts chase after them ~Michael Lee Johnson graveside service blowing across the cemetery a dropped tissue ~John J. Dunphy swallowing fear a biscuit afraid for the throat ~Peter Jastermsky this could be anything what she meant by…
if you want to know ask the two-toed sloth ~Richard Magahiz who cancelled this sky, chained the rain? must've been us ~Richard Magahiz endless throughout the day a bird strived to measure the sky throughout the night the horizon continued to droop as a dream in the nest ~O.P. Jha Darkness is only light without witnesses. ~Manasa Reddy moon? or a porthole in the ship of night ~Anne Fox Big Choices…
Rem Is the word I couldn’t remember because I didn't sleep enough. ~Keith Snow deadline the cat on my keyboard ~Joshua St. Claire devolving into dactyls mountains of the moon ~ Joshua St. Claire Muppet theater box seats I’ve become a grumpy old codger ~Randy Brooks Fierce Pelicans Five white pelicans stand on a rock in the river looking like they’re holding down an alligator hoping it will drown.…
body-shaming the ugliness of beauty magazines ~words and image: Debbie Strange girl full of songs when the music fades away, who is left inside me? i am a girl full of songs. ~linda m. crate a sparrow hops through the link in the dog park fence ~Noah Berlatsky vernal equinox wheezing life slowly ~Sheikha A. brandmarking what isn't theirs socio-elitists ~Sheikha A. thunderbolt island-domes of jelly…
the writer's diagnosis his life enters its final chapter ~John J. Dunphy bookmarked the pages where i grew up ~Mona Bedi *Mitch* Your obstructions are being obstructed to death. ~Noah Berlatsky divorce wife awarded both burial plots ~John J. Dunphy armed with nothing but a bassoon she fires a single note at the Ghost of Christmas Past ~Roberta Beach Jacobson moths forever never ever butterflies…
threshold wasps still dreaming of the picket fence ~Kelly Sauvage Moyer sunrise the pursed lips of an opossum ~Kelly Sauvage Moyer tidal algae clinging to sorrow ~Bruce H. Feingold river walk prayers so thick you can catch ‘em with a net ~Kelly Sauvage Moyer like tinkerbell i need you to believe in me, otherwise i may fade from being. ~linda m. crate the moon knows all of my secrets, but she…
Blueprints I fed sparrows. They returned with architectural drawings. ~Travis Park Museum of Air Please do not touch the empty spaces. Some are original. ~Travis Park Weather Returned The umbrella came home with the wrong rain. ~Travis Park Way Out The exit has been framed as another exhibit. ~Travis Park a colossus cat pushes everything over the edge flat earth ~Kimberly Kuchar You have no deaths…
