Adjei Agyei-Baah

Halloween —
a scarecrow with
a crooked scythe

— Adjei Agyei-Baah

Joshua Gage

travel-worn cloak
the rasp of a whetstone
against his scythe

— Joshua Gage

Jackie Chou

empty sockets
where his eyes should be
night prowler

— Jackie Chou

Rowan Beckett

my carnal mind rotting apples

— Rowan Beckett

Barrie Levine

funeral cortège
a traffic light
drips red rain

— Barrie Levine

Mona Bedi

long dead
he sees himself
on the pyre

— Mona Bedi

John Hawkhead

live fast 
I overtake
a hearse

— John Hawkhead

Joshua Gage

abandoned lab
the baying hounds
lead the mob

— Joshua Gage

Lorraine A Padden

mistaking her fingers
for carrots
chopping block

— Lorraine A Padden

Chad Lee Robinson

fog
the twisted stems 
of pumpkins

— Chad Lee Robinson

Deborah P Kolodji

dark sky country
moving light
of a ghost bicycle

— Deborah P Kolodji

Kirsten Cliff Elliot

empty cocoon
what I think about
when it’s dark

— Kirsten Cliff Elliot

Roberta Beach Jacobson

blood-stained
bandages
in the doctor’s bag

— Roberta Beach Jacobson