Katherine E Winnick

dead meat...
the stinger
still in its tail 

— Katherine E Winnick

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

Scott Wiggerman

more alive
than me tonight
the undead

— Scott Wiggerman

Jackie Chou

Hinamatsuri
the imperial guard dolls
raise their swords

— Jackie Chou

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

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

— David C. Kopaska-Merkel

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

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

Patricia Hawkhead

having a lie-in a fresh grave

— Patricia Hawkhead

Anne Fox

power saw
the softness of her hand
against the metal

— Anne Fox

Roberta Beach Jacobson

animal kingdom he eats his way through

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

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

Vishal Prabhu

attic staircase 
the last step
in the dark

— Vishal Prabhu

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

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

Jerome Berglund

radiation burns — 
she asks what 
year is this

— Jerome Berglund

degrees kelvin . . . 

beneath the mitre 

sickles project

— Jerome Berglund

Debarati Sen

scattering the ash
his silhouette floats 
with the waves

— Debarati Sen

Kelly Sauvage Moyer

scrawled sigils
the bleed
of witch’s ink

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

skeleton key . . .

the rusting cage

of consciousness

— Kelly Sauvage Moyer

John Hawkhead

filling the basket
with cut flowers
a wicker coffin

— John Hawkhead

soft flurries

our old cat releases

her final purr

— John Hawkhead

Mark Gilbert

questions and answers
the piano wire
sings

— Mark Gilbert