Adjei Agyei-Baah

night hush —
a rooftop cat slips
into the moon

— Adjei Agyei-Baah

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

before the altar a charred root unfurls

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Terrie Jacks

deserted farm
riding an old tractor
a murder of crows

— Terrie Jacks

John Hawkhead

power cut 
she fumbles her way
through the morgue

— John Hawkhead

Rowan Beckett

into the night a corpse’s tune

— Rowan Beckett

Lorraine A. Padden

kissing his neck
she imagines a tattoo
shaped like fingers

— Lorraine A. Padden

Jackie Chou

crescent moon
waking to the wrath
of her blade

— Jackie Chou

Barrie Levine

glint of a wire in the piano tuner’s case

— Barrie Levine

Greg Schwartz

midnight cigarette
a smoke tendril curls
around her neck

— Greg Schwartz

Terrie Jacks

a shard of light
in the branches
sickle moon

— Terrie Jacks

Rowan Beckett

corpse flower roots of my teeth

— Rowan Beckett

Lorraine A. Padden

maternal urges
the comfort of eggs
under her skin

— Lorraine A. Padden

John Hawkhead

silent movie 
an ash-grey figure
slides from the screen

— John Hawkhead