I forgot how jealousy
looked on you –
Prairie by Paul Sammartino
A landscape enormous and wide
opens with great remembering:
Hungry Seasons by Evan Warren
If I could speak in any language
it would be the one winter flirts with
before kissing the fall with its first closed-mouth snow.
The Tree Poems by Phil Boiarski
On the fly leaf,
I leave words.
Implied leaves
flutter past, green
The Epitome of Cool by Art Heifetz
I peered through granny glasses
at the standard issue
crew cut frat boys
Good-bye Florida by Nanette L. Avery
U.S. 1 drips into the into the Atlantic
where the sun sets and tourists applaud;
She Died Like a Poem by Narendra Kumar Arya
She died like a poem
Wordless and obstructed
In Defense of Ruin by Joshua Converse
I love to see a parking lot being
reclaimed by the weeds,
when it becomes
She Lounges Hungrily by Sy Roth
inamorata of the deep
frozen into their thousand-year dreams,
feed wryly upon one another.
Summer Return by Mihaela Tudor
She’s sitting on his bed,
Can’t remember the deaf or the blind,
The souvenir of illo tempore is lost
With her once at his forgotten side,
Cheers to(o) by Terceira A. Molnar
your lips,
cut like razors,
tap dancing on inapt destinies.
Fifty Four by Carla Paolini
Fifty Four by Carla Paolini To give my thought a body I choose a corps de ballet I’d have it dance excogitate acrobatic tricks see it dancing about on the air I’d create suitable tools to enable it strengthen its intuitions an athletic corps endowed with poetic ripples hither and thither peepin’n the show enormously […]
Patterns by John Sibley Williams
Down the steep drop-off to sea
without plummeting.
Comic Book Fantasy by SMC Wamsteker
His gift to me: a concealed mirage in an urban wasteland,
tucked away behind Taco Bell and a 76.
Outside, Inside by Jennifer-Crystal Johnson
Outside, Inside by Jennifer-Crystal Johnson On the outside, I smile. I socialize, I laugh, I have a good time… And most of the time, It works. On the inside, I cry. I worry, I wonder, I feel hopeless and afraid… And most of the time, It hurts. On the outside, I sing. I am strong, […]