Issue 24
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Issue 24
POETS
ANTEBI, DEBBI
BEASTON, JUDY
BOUNDS, SANDRA
BUTLER, JANET
CANCRO, THERESA
CHAKRABORTY, SOUVIK
CHAMELEON, JESUS
CUMMINGS, KEMAR
DAVIES, WILLIAM
DRURY, IVO
GARDINER, TIM
GUSEK, CHRIS
GUZZI, DEBORAH
HERRELL, DENNIS
IUPPA, M.J.
JETT, LUTHER
MANUS, GRADY
MARINE , MICHAEL
MELTON, BILL
NICHOLAS, JOE
OLIVERSON, ALISSA
PELLA, PATRICIA
RIFFLE, JESS
ROCHE, STEPHEN
RUSHTON, BIFF
SALVER, ANGELL LYNN
SHARP, CYNTHIA
TAYLOR NIELSEN, DAVID
THACKER, NICHOLAS
TROJAN, PEGGY
VELASCO, SARAH
WARD, DOMINIC
WASILEWSKI, NELLS
WEST, TYSON
WONG, DEBORAH
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Chris Gusek
time piles up around me
in dust heaps
of what i once was |
Chris Gusek
under the bridge
street artist sleeps
to cars cutting air |
Jesus Chameleon
geckos mimic cries---
oxygen and radio
gambit of false truths |
Jesus Chameleon
pleasant turtle dove---
hornets build a muddy nest
regarding new sins |
Dominic Ward
Seashore driftwood
Brashed saltine by the wash
The salt closes my eyes. |
Theresa Cancro
Ice locks the last
embrace of fall beneath
bare branches out of reach. |
Bill Melton
Black asphalt ribbon
Snakes around snow covered hills
Nature’s etch-a-sketch |
Bill Melton
Hawk’s talons tighten
Rabbit’s final dying scream
Sounds almost human |
Deborah Wong
Rehearsing April solitaire
by the moonlight;
Tableau in wilderness |
Stephen Roche
The sun creeps through
setting fire to the bedroom.
Eyes flutter open wide. |
Debbi Antebi
I suffocate him
inside the sealed envelope
holding his letters |
Patricia Pella
songs of the ancestors
echo across the mesa
spirit medicine |
Patricia Pella
in silent crescendo
a mountain rises through the mist
an ordinary day |
Sarah Velasco
With the ambition of Caesar
and the fiery strength of Hell,
The Sun climbed up to his throne in the sky |
Nicholas Thacker
Eyes drawn blank
in a bedlam of cyclicality
stare despairingly into the abyss |
Peggy Trojan
her sudden death,
a door slammed shut
by the wind. |
Peggy Trojan
now comes spring wildly
like drunk wind swirling mist
bursting green like thought |
Nells Wasilewski
our shoes by the bed
we snuggle close for warmth
heart beats in rhythm |
Nells Wasilewski
stars wallpaper the sky
silver moon turns on the light
dense clouds flip the switch |
Souvik Chakraborty
Night has her wings spread,
A storm is brewing fast.
Burnt cordite, glassy eyes. |
Luther Jett
March day, heavy rain
morning traffic moving slow
dream-fragments linger |
David Taylor Nielsen
I love you like Godzilla
Loved Japan: flattened buildings,
Radioactive wreckage. |
David Taylor Nielsen
Tonight I will be Krishna,
Quite irresistibly blue,
Dancing with all the milkmaids. |
Tyson West
downtown bar streetlights
stagger against midnight sky
slur over the stars |
Tyson West
the dark of samhain
watermelon sugar dreams
once green leaves dance in red |
Alissa Oliverson
suspended white puffs
interpretive sky dancing
inner child delights |
Sandra Bounds
stars sequin the sky
light obsidian darkness
Nature’s fireworks |
Joe Nicholas
The universe does
not know you by name, but knows
all your vibrations. |
Ivo Drury
through the transom window
fresh stain of moonlight
on the old maple floor |
William Davies
Starlings dart
through white coral
of snowy trees. |
Souvik Chakraborty
One last flip of the coin.
Diffused sunlight; graffiti on walls -
Scrubbed off dead cells. |
Grady Manus
wooly little dog curled up on my feet
my toes giggle
my heart sighs |
Judy Beaston
winter sky reveals
bold grin of a Cheshire cat
in the shadows, a tail flicks |
Biff Rushton
She’s Tolstoy’s winter ~
Ruthless, bitter, and dwelling
In the seamless grey |
Biff Rushton
Her verse as lush swells ~
deep coral blue waves ~ cresting
against my stone heart |
Janet Butler
a gong strikes somewhere
vibrations rattle my heart
you thinking of me |
Janet Butler
chocolate dipped finger tips
I imagine you wiping your mouth
with pleasure |
Janet Butler
Earth sleeps.
Her long slow breathing quiets
the flutter of day. |
Deborah Guzzi
licked, the icicle morn
the drooling gutters, the drifts,
of pouting lips at backdoor maws |
Deborah Guzzi
bone like trees line streets of Hiroshima
sentinels, scratching the sky,
winter clipped memories ... |
Dennis Herrell
Earth stores
traveled bones
and treasured secrets |
Tim Gardiner
Sad shadow soldiers
bathed in moonlight
spirits of a distant war |
Kemar Cummings
summer midnight
the moon strikes a match
a sky of fireflies |
Theresa Cancro
one snowflake falls
silently on another --
I take your hand in mine. |
Michael Marine
Southern death’s-head moth,
On our side of the long road...
An end to summer. |
Cynthia Sharp
demi-moonlit night
September cool in the air
deep in love with you |
M.J. Iuppa
Sleep’s ragged breath ransacks our chilly room.
Full moon snagged in the sycamore’s branches.
Red star pulses on the radio tower |
Jess Riffle
Candy for adults
Take a sip and wash it down
Don’t make a habit |
Angell Lynn Salver
He is waking
pressing into down
a thirsty spring |
Angell Lynn Salver
He is waning
curling into winter
all the missing leaves |
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