Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

around
the corpses
fitted sheets

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

tap tap tap

the mausoleum walls

answer me back

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

Thomas Klodowsky

a howling wind recalls the phantoms of last year’s accident

— Thomas Klodowsky

C.F. Tash

apples bruised
with a fistful
of half moon

— C.F. Tash

dry drowning

the tippler’s

baby girl

— C.F. Tash

Tracy Davidson

venom 
flooding every vein 
her serpent’s kiss

— Tracy Davidson

Patricia Hawkhead

dreaming of his hand 
softly against my cheek
the spider settles

— Patricia Hawkhead

Minal Sarosh

forest stench
the vulture’s talons 
blood red

— Minal Sarosh

past life

a black cat

follows me home

— Minal Sarosh

Roberta Beach Jacobson

dusty whispers
from the cupboard
Satsuma vase

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Herb Tate

in the dead of night 
an acquired taste 
for the living

— Herb Tate

John Hawkhead

yellow mandibles
clicking through the wheat
the oncoming scythe

— John Hawkhead

a stab in the dark

the blind cave spider

finds the fallen bat

— John Hawkhead

Roman Lyakhovetsky

dead shift
me and her whisper
in the room

— Roman Lyakhovetsky

smiling skull

the dentist assures me

it’s only in my head

— Roman Lyakhovetsky

Jackie Chou

moonlit farm
the scarecrow staring
at my new clothes

— Jackie Chou

severed roses

the chill of his blade

on my neck

— Jackie Chou

C.X.Turner

carving
the soft pumpkin
of your face

— C.X.Turner

red seas…

stirring

my cauldron

— C.X.Turner

petro c. k.

lifting the veil
between worlds
we kiss

— petro c. k.

blood moon

my therapist

opens me up

— petro c. k.

Joshua Gage

charnel mist 
the ether of lightning
stirs our leeches

— Joshua Gage

Pasul Bârgău

our unburied child

whimpers a lullaby

— Joshua Gage

Kirsten Cliff Elliot

the laying on of hands
her skin crawls

— Kirsten Cliff Elliot

Mona Bedi

dark ocean
an old woman walks 
on the waves

— Mona Bedi

sleepless—

her dead grandpa

sings a lullaby

— Mona Bedi

Kimberly Kuchar

Rosemary sings
they slice inside her brain
until she’s quiet

— Kimberly Kuchar

Minal Sarosh

hazy fog 
the tinkle of a boy’s
unseen bicycle

— Minal Sarosh

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

black suit in the closet apartment darkness

— Michael Nickels-Wisdom