Tony Williams

silent stables…
horse teeth
in the soup

— Tony Williams

tent in the woods—

flies buzzing

to get out

— Tony Williams

Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

singing lullabies 
to herself
ghost child 

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

the cat claws itself free tenth life

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

John Hawkhead

holloway shadows
a clatter of hooves
on the corpse road

— John Hawkhead

skulduggery hill

he selects a flesh canvas

for his red period

— John Hawkhead

Joseph P. Wechselberger

no wind
one swing keeps swinging
on its own

— Joseph P. Wechselberger

C.X.Turner

switched on—
a red mass empties
through a widening tube

— C.X.Turner

repairing herself

peeling back

skin

— C.X.Turner

Chad Lee Robinson

my son chases the ball into traffic a gust of leaves

— Chad Lee Robinson



moonbeams . . .
     the shifting particles 
          of a ghost

— Chad Lee Robinson

Kimberly Kuchar

curdled milk
on her sleeping face
a strange man’s breath

— Kimberly Kuchar

Joshua St. Claire

mournful thyrsis
a femur’s head casting
shadows on the peat

— Joshua St. Claire

winter’s chill

all the dead people

in my cellphone

— Joshua St. Claire

Bidyutprabha Gantayat

watching a Hitchcock
from under the blanket
wintry warmth

— Bidyutprabha Gantayat

Minal Sarosh

crimson night
a bloated mosquito resting
on the tent wall

— Minal Sarosh

green grass

he walks so slowly

among the graves

— Minal Sarosh

Thomas Zimmerman

hard rain tonight
all the dead poets
typing

— Thomas Zimmerman

Jerome Berglund

entrance
and exit wound
cherchez la femme

— Jerome Berglund

needle

in the nougat

true believer

— Jerome Berglund

Tracy Davidson

lucky rabbit’s foot 
she boils 
the man who butchered it

— Tracy Davidson

Tuyet Van Do

empty study
sound of guitar playing
on its own

— Tuyet Van Do

Debarati Sen

village dusk —
a pair of hairy hands 
grab my feet

— Debarati Sen

family vacation

the car falls headlong

into a gorge

— Debarati Sen

Mariel Herbert

starving all the king’s men try kintsugi

— Mariel Herbert

not a scab

dipping the tweezers

in holy water

— Mariel Herbert

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

after the storm
pounding on the sound-proof door
walk-in freezer

— David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Daipayan Nair

under the pull 
of a child’s scream 
electrocution

— Daipayan Nair

Roberta Beach Jacobson

spiderweb
sticky secrets
of the underground

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

John Hawkhead

a sheep for a lamb 
the hanging judge delivers
a suspended sentence

— John Hawkhead