Friday, March 31, 2023

Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

midnight 
feeding upon
the bone saw’s scraps

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui



sweetening
the pot
arsenic

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Joshua St. Claire

shimmer
on the knife’s edge
bleach blossoms

— Joshua St. Claire



all the better to see you with Gloucester’s eyes

— Joshua St. Claire

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

C.X.Turner

wild roses...
her perfumed spirit
consumes me

— C.X.Turner



dark solace
clogging my veins
her blood

— C.X.Turner

Friday, March 24, 2023

John Hawkhead

night work
racking up
the heretics

— John Hawkhead



winter light
spilling from the cairn
a bone whistle

— John Hawkhead

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Daipayan Nair

red sunrise —
a goat’s last bleat echoes 
across the temple 

— Daipayan Nair



winter noon —
a helmet in the middle
of a highway

— Daipayan Nair

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Debarati Sen

dementia —
dad asks me
my good name 

— Debarati Sen



memory loss —
grandma dresses up
in her wedding gown

— Debarati Sen

Monday, March 20, 2023

Minal Sarosh

skull ring
caught in the circle 
of life and death

— Minal Sarosh



old painting
on her blood red lips
bugs

— Minal Sarosh

Friday, March 17, 2023

Chris Langer

wind battered sails
through fog the sweet melody 
of a siren 

— Chris Langer



after the war
all that remains
their shadows

— Chris Langer

Thursday, March 16, 2023

petro c. k.

a circle 
of witches
call my name

— petro c. k.



barely keeping
it together
kintsugi doll

— petro c. k.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Mona Bedi

winter chill
a skeleton burns bones
to make a bonfire

— Mona Bedi



lonely drive
an upside down body
runs alongside the car

— Mona Bedi

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Monday, March 13, 2023

Friday, March 10, 2023

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Joseph P. Wechselberger

feeling what it’s like
to live in another’s skin
body farm

— Joseph P. Wechselberger



full moon
the sound of wings
too large for birds

— Joseph P. Wechselberger

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Hifsa Ashraf

death sentence 
a streak of blood  
on the fox incisor

— Hifsa Ashraf



midnight call—
a bat unwraps
the chrysalis

— Hifsa Ashraf

Monday, March 6, 2023

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

the mud 
above the moss 
above the corpse

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz



under a
growl you
adorn me

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Friday, March 3, 2023

Kerry J Heckman

faint scream in the distance the rustle of leaves

— Kerry J Heckman



winter’s end 
the squirrel 
decomposes 

— Kerry J Heckman

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Mark Gilbert

cutting away
before he closes
his lips

— Mark Gilbert



this verbless
death dance
of the greenbottle

— Mark Gilbert