ALLGEIER, JACOB
AMBOS, EMMA
ANDERSON, C.B.
ANTEBI, DEBBI
ARNER, JUDITH
BAUER, GERALD
BICKLEY, SARA
CHATHAM, JOSEPH
DAVID, INGRID
DETTMAR, BENJAMIN
ELLMAN, NEIL
FERDON, JOEL
FLANDERS, RHETA
GIBSON, RAYMOND
HENDRICKSON, TYLER
HOLMES, TOM
IUPPA, M.J.
KELLER, CHRISTOPHER
KOWALCZYK, JAMES
MACLEAN, J.S.
MYERS, SPENCER
NESTEROVA, YULIYA
NGO, DEBORAH
SCANLON, RAY
SCOTT, NANCY
STONE, ANDREW
STREUR, RUSSELL
SWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER J.
TRUNCALE, JOSEPH
VAN RHOADS, SHEA
WARD, ANTHONY
WHITMAN, NEAL
Rheta Flanders
The wind from a window
A hand over the divider, caressing
On the open highway
Rheta Flanders
Fresh paint, new drapes
Vacuuming the hall
Mother is coming
Debbi Antebi
looking at the old family photos,
she tries to catch memories
with a butterfly net
Yuliya Nesterova
No, Baby! Don’t
French-kiss the world
one socket at a time.
Jacob Allgeier
The only red light I saw
Was the beeping monitor
Cursing at me in disgust
Sara Bickley
unbloody (pain left behind)
sacrifice (love snatched up
to heaven, to here)
Neal Whitman
How to remember
to work on
my forgetfulness?
Neil Ellman
The teacher said, "Write what you know."
So I did
and a blank page stared back at me.
Neil Ellman
My words like feathers
brush against the sky
before they fall to silent earth.
Neil Ellman
Listen to its wings, listen.
It speaks just enough of poetry
to write a tercet for its feathered flight.
J.S. MacLean
I fear that
they engineered a mouse
unafraid of any cat.
J.S. MacLean
Fleeting eye contact –
Grizzly down the trail,
strangers across the floor
Joel Ferdon
Rear differential breaks
Like a womb before departure.
So much beautiful sorrow.
Joel Ferdon
Vishnu paid the bills
This month. It took a god
For me to make rent.
Ray Scanlon
Shrine at the road’s edge:
not so invulnerable,
teens crash and perish.
Nancy Scott
I stayed with the man
who’s asking the waiter
to pack up the leftover Dim Sum.
Nancy Scott
As I step into the lake,
chilled water curls around
my ankles like a serpent.
Nancy Scott
His arms, dark wings, around me,
cheek against my sun-bleached hair
in the familiar way of lovers.
Ingrid David
silver streaks from the sky
plants wiggle in delight
humans sigh at the sight
Ingrid David
purpose walks its path
completely oblivious
miss it all together
Joseph Truncale
Frosted morning,
Red and gold leaves on path,
Beauty of fall.
Joseph Truncale
Beautiful snow,
Deep inside the woods,
A mysterious silence.
Shea Van Rhoads
A hirsute man in a slovenly hovel:
all his plans
involve a shovel.
Deborah Ngo
Her pretty brown eyes,
moonlit pools filled to the brim...
trickling down slowly
C.B. Anderson
Three wishes I have:
two bodies, one heart,
and zero regrets.
C.B. Anderson
Sometimes, my former friend,
sincere apologies
are simply not enough.
Christopher Keller
If I were to fall,
I’d fall a proton; avoid
Negative charges.
Christopher Keller
The truth of a drip dries harder and faster than
the ink that stains it; every paper-scrawl
seals emotions permanent: write what is holy.
Debbi Antebi
construction noise creeps into my study,
carelessly crushing
well-crafted thoughts
Raymond Gibson
we broke
the dawn & night keeps
falling
Debbi Antebi
renovated library—
the smell of old books
filling freshly-painted cubicles
Raymond Gibson
hell is all heat
heaven all light
this life smoke
Spencer Myers
Even warts
become endearing
when worn for long enough.
Andrew Stone
Bold bruises color my girl’s
calves, thighs, arms, eyes.
Did I paint her plastic flesh?
M.J. Iuppa
Mother, clever culprit,
She’s the one who made us
This way she lives on, forever and ever
M.J. Iuppa
Fistful of pennies dropped
fast into a tempered glass
jar-- saved thunder
Christopher J. Swartz
The earth has eaten the stone, and the winds
have slowly turned slate to chalk. Where once
gravestones stood, a colony of ants has spawned.
Benjamin Dettmar
Two-hands too-much to contain
The rice grain mote
Of our insanity
Andrew Stone
Esther mutilated self
with insecurities
until they knotted her noose.
Sara Bickley
Google: barfly adverb
I was the first one to see it,
I honestly believed.
Judith Arner
he loves me
but how does a daisy know
and why must I tear it apart to get the message
Tom Holmes
Remnants of the first sad story –
a black bear’s white teeth
& infant buried in a pit.
Tom Holmes
Seagulls a thousand
miles in, what do they think
McDonald’s is – food?
Joseph Chatham
here we are, a lifetime gone
breathing heavy now in the twilight
and yet still the spark beckons
Russell Streur
Her robe falls open
One hundred years of beauty
Moonlight on her breast
James Kowalczyk
his muscular horn
wrestled a robust triplet
we all won the match
Anthony Ward
defiant drinker
his albumen eyes turned yolk
running down his cheek
Tyler Hendrickson
you left me
I whispered to the air,
you left me
Emma Ambos
Down by the corner of the salty brine
the sand-whistlers
take what’s rightfully theirs.
Gerald Bauer
Prairie horizon
blends into blue sky.
Time and eternity meet.