Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

midnight 
feeding upon
the bone saw’s scraps

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

sweetening

the pot

arsenic

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

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

Daniel Gene Barlekamp

a brush of the cheek

withered flesh

— Daniel Gene Barlekamp

C.X.Turner

wild roses...
her perfumed spirit
consumes me

— C.X.Turner

dark solace

clogging my veins

her blood

— C.X.Turner

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

a dream pusher at my door

— Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

John Hawkhead

night work
racking up
the heretics

— John Hawkhead

winter light

spilling from the cairn

a bone whistle

— John Hawkhead

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

Richard Witz

harvest moon
closet hinges moan

— Richard Witz

Debarati Sen

dementia —
dad asks me
my good name 

— Debarati Sen

memory loss —

grandma dresses up

in her wedding gown

— Debarati Sen

Minal Sarosh

skull ring
caught in the circle 
of life and death

— Minal Sarosh

old painting

on her blood red lips

bugs

— Minal Sarosh

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

petro c. k.

a circle 
of witches
call my name

— petro c. k.

barely keeping

it together

kintsugi doll

— petro c. k.

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

Jerome Berglund

a fatal
sort of moonlight
scimitar

— Jerome Berglund

Roberta Beach Jacobson

under
the cover of duvet
she haunts herself

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Katherine E Winnick

a puja
whispers of her name
in my dreams

— Katherine E Winnick

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

Rich Schilling

red leaves the wood chipper raining blood

— Rich Schilling

Hifsa Ashraf

death sentence 
a streak of blood  
on the fox incisor

— Hifsa Ashraf

midnight call—

a bat unwraps

the chrysalis

— Hifsa Ashraf

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

the mud 
above the moss 
above the corpse

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

under a

growl you

adorn me

— Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Kerry J Heckman

faint scream in the distance the rustle of leaves

— Kerry J Heckman

winter’s end 

the squirrel 

decomposes 

— Kerry J Heckman

Farah Ali

birdwatching
tossing harvested eyes
to the crows

— Farah Ali

Mark Gilbert

cutting away
before he closes
his lips

— Mark Gilbert

this verbless

death dance

of the greenbottle

— Mark Gilbert