Vishal Prabhu

lifting a spoon
flowers in 
an overgrown graveyard

— Vishal Prabhu

Alper Ghuchlu

church at midnight 
wails of ghosts
praying 

— Alper Ghuchlu

Albert Schlaht

receding tide
under the docks served to crabs
a corpse

— Albert Schlaht

John Hawkhead

entering darkness
a candle gutters wildly
in the skull’s sockets

— John Hawkhead

Anne Fox

beaver moon
dislodging the grip
of his teeth

— Anne Fox

Nicholas De Marino

blood-stained
hat in hand
anything helps

— Nicholas De Marino

Roberta Beach Jacobson

in silence
the chill 
of onyx

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Deborah Karl-Brandt

sooner or later
they will come for you
wriggling maggots

— Deborah Karl-Brandt

Amber Winter

new flooring
easier than bleaching
the carpet

— Amber Winter

Chad Lee Robinson

torn clouds 
impaled heads
mark the boundary 

— Chad Lee Robinson

lampshade a stretched tattoo

— Chad Lee Robinson

DJ Tyrer

painting
watching eyes
begin to whisper

— DJ Tyrer

Jerome Berglund

skulls everywhere
halloween decorating 
for terminal patients

— Jerome Berglund

discarded juicebox

all the decorations

have been taken down

— Jerome Berglund

Nicholas De Marino

immaculate spines
the librarian’s
private collection

— Nicholas De Marino

Rowan Beckett Minor

a skeleton key
beneath the welcome mat
drips of blood

— Rowan Beckett Minor

abandoned RV

on the winding backroad

a severed tongue

— Rowan Beckett Minor

John H. Dromey

ghost ships with skeleton crews

— John H. Dromey

Greg Schwartz

ghost moon
she whispers
in my ear

— Greg Schwartz

Alper Ghuchlu

scratch marks on a grave
how long has it been
since my death

— Alper Ghuchlu

John Hawkhead

darkness spreading under the hanging tree

— John Hawkhead

predator reflections in a shark tank

— John Hawkhead

Joshua St. Claire

my breath becomes basalt

— Joshua St. Claire

dark road a dandelion cloud of eyes

— Joshua St. Claire

Mark Gilbert

Halloween moon—
showing us only
the dark side

— Mark Gilbert