Lovette Carter

calling
the last REM
blood moon

— Lovette Carter

Adjei Agyei-Baah

moonlit barn
the footfall
of a scarecrow

— Adjei Agyei-Baah

Hifsa Ashraf

chipped paint wall his footprints

— Hifsa Ashraf

Mark Gilbert

horror movie
a shadow
on her lung

— Mark Gilbert

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

dusty attic 
the scent of
a grimoire

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Jodie Hawthorne

robbed 
of your very last piece
the vulture’s eye

— Jodie Hawthorne

John Hawkhead

an old leather bag
to hold jumbled things in
corpse skin

— John Hawkhead

Marion Clarke

so quiet 
the girl on the swing 
with no mouth

— Marion Clarke

Hifsa Ashraf

painting no more wolf shadow

— Hifsa Ashraf

Roberta Beach Jacobson

drunk
on plum wine
gargoyles

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Jackie Chou

midnight train
the faceless man
next to me

— Jackie Chou

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

echoes in a vacant house regret

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Roman Lyakhovetsky

passing slowly
by the grave of his boss
ghost writer

— Roman Lyakhovetsky