Thursday, August 28, 2025

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Chad Lee Robinson

charging phantom 
the thousand cuts 
of a cold wind 

— Chad Lee Robinson



electrical storm . . .
night clouds flash
with clashing spells

— Chad Lee Robinson

John Hawkhead

spirit level the coffin hits bottom

— John Hawkhead

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Monday, August 25, 2025

Jackie Chou

Hinamatsuri
the imperial guard dolls
raise their swords

— Jackie Chou

Friday, August 22, 2025

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

mattock head
flies off on the back swing
last blood-pressure spike

— David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

C.X.Turner

night river
a bone white hand
rowing itself

— C.X.Turner



graveyard fog
the jawbone grins
without lips

— C.X.Turner

Mark Gilbert

bolting spinach
the ghost’s
bitter touch

— Mark Gilbert



rusted barbed wire
another twist
of her scrunchie

— Mark Gilbert

Thomas Zimmerman

midnight strikes
the cracked 
doll smiles

— Thomas Zimmerman



within the heap
of mandrake roots
a tiny scream

— Thomas Zimmerman

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

in a child’s drawing, 
the foot of the bed 
just underground 

— Michael Nickels-Wisdom

Amber Winter

flossing his teeth
with her hair
tinder date

— Amber Winter

Jackie Chou

 night forest
the centaurs exchange 
their appendages 

— Jackie Chou

Joshua St. Claire

cirrus vertebratus
rubbing on the rocks
to shed my skin

— Joshua St. Claire



another twist
of the garrote
sparrowsong

— Joshua St. Claire

Monday, August 18, 2025

Friday, August 15, 2025

Anne Fox

power saw
the softness of her hand
against the metal

— Anne Fox

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Chad Lee Robinson

premeditated 
the ravens arrive 
in their funeral feathers 

— Chad Lee Robinson 



asylum garden
the owl movements
of an old woman’s head

— Chad Lee Robinson

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Monday, August 11, 2025

Colleen M. Farrelly

hoar frost
creeping across the pane
spider legs

— Colleen M. Farrelly



gothic romance
a black rose
in his dead hand

— Colleen M. Farrelly

Friday, August 8, 2025

Lorraine A Padden

rattus rattus
the helter skelter
of an overfilled dumpster

— Lorraine A Padden



attention speculation...
guessing the number of eyeballs
in a jar

— Lorraine A Padden

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Jerome Berglund

radiation burns — 
she asks what 
year is this

— Jerome Berglund



degrees kelvin . . . 
beneath the mitre 
sickles project

— Jerome Berglund

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Debarati Sen

scattering the ash
his silhouette floats 
with the waves

— Debarati Sen

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

scrawled sigils
the bleed
of witch’s ink

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer



skeleton key . . .
the rusting cage
of consciousness

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Monday, August 4, 2025

John Hawkhead

filling the basket
with cut flowers
a wicker coffin

— John Hawkhead



soft flurries
our old cat releases
her final purr

— John Hawkhead

Friday, August 1, 2025