Katherine E Winnick

snowbells 
the ghosts of distant pasts
beckon me

— Katherine E Winnick

R. Suresh babu

mother moon
the Siamese cat
wails like a newborn

— R. Suresh babu

night graveyard

an old woman sleepwalking

with incense sticks

— R. Suresh babu

petro c. k.

Krampusnacht . . .
fresh hoofprints
in the snow

— petro c. k.

arctic circle

on the white sheet

a pool of blood

— petro c. k.

Julie Bloss Kelsey

scattered light—
this phantom
darkness

— Julie Bloss Kelsey

Keith Evetts

a sip from the cauldron
of what might have been
warm tomato soup

— Keith Evetts

C.X.Turner

scooping out
the setting sun
of his remains

— C.X.Turner

ghost tour

shining a light

on my past

— C.X.Turner

Christopher Peys

predawn
something up ahead
eyes aglow

— Christopher Peys

Lorraine A Padden

La Brea tar pits
a visitor admires
the long gestation

— Lorraine A Padden

lady fingers

a stray nail

in the custard

— Lorraine A Padden

Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

pins and needles
all over her
voodoo doll body

— Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

Eavonka Ettinger

how it ended
broken bones carved
by a bandsaw

— Eavonka Ettinger

Jackie Chou

Descanso Garden 
the moving lips 
of camellias 

— Jackie Chou 

rusty mirror

my mother’s face

in the reflection

— Jackie Chou 

Hifsa Ashraf

dripping blood 
from the window icicles 
late winter dusk 

— Hifsa Ashraf

witch-hunting

circle around the fire

black moths

 

— Hifsa Ashraf

Mark Gilbert

dawn chorus
the undead
are early risers

— Mark Gilbert

Roberta Beach Jacobson

rockslide crunch of riverbed bones

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Mona Bedi

night train—
a headless man
gives me company

— Mona Bedi

ancestral house

my dead grandma sings

me a lullaby

— Mona Bedi

petro c. k.

jack-o’-lantern and me rotting flesh

— petro c. k.

Chad Lee Robinson

opening the coffin
for final adjustments . . .
a white moth

— Chad Lee Robinson

close lightning . . .

a clown doll

in the rocking chair

— Chad Lee Robinson

Terrie Jacks

lengthening shadows
linger mute
among the mums

— Terrie Jacks

John Hawkhead

paper lanterns
such thin material
over her bones

— John Hawkhead

funeral rite 

everyone must dance

to their own tune

— John Hawkhead

Mariel Herbert

a claw
slices the veil
ninth life

— Mariel Herbert

before

the doorbell rings

stabbing wind

— Mariel Herbert