A Neurodualist’s Weapon
Liam Gehrig Bach
my body is all burns and wires
skin and blood, electricity and fires
heartbeat heat […]
Becoming Song
Mark Strohschein
I am tired
and only want
to try
nothing more
than to
transmogrify
into sweet, sweet tones
Dancing for the Dead
Merna Dyer Skinner
Forgotten are the living who disappear
into skyscraper sugar clouds […]
Haiku Collection, Pruned
Liam Gehrig Bach
why place our hands / in reach of forbidden fruit? / that just says, “CONSUME.”
crawling in and out / fleeting emotions […]
lovely morning
Griffin Elliot
cOttON
SW A BS
Floating through
THE
SKY
Black tar roof shingles
Break orderly […]
Manhattan Travel Host
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
skipped class / junior year
fled rural / jersey
first / time
nucleus / capitalist
manhattan / friday
december / thirteenth
apologies / for pauses
still breath / catching
homeless / slumped
rows / […]
Mutual Friends
Laurel Silverwood
How are you feeling?
- A) I’m fine.
- B) My blood […]
Pere Lachaise
Griffin Elliot
Bury me
In Pere Lachaise
With my sunglasses on
So my grave will read
“He lays as he lived:
Cool and collected.”
And between the tombs
While leaves fall
And flowers wilt
My bones […]
Prostrate
Robert Beveridge
sweep of hand
puppets flung
to batter
walls
and table […]
What Finally Falls
Jayne Marek
These rhododendron leaves yellow
talismans of neglect. I asked you
to take on the yard, keep it
somehow. Summer
cracked our skins, though
when it’s over
RC deWinter
I had my
toenails painted blue
just because
I could – and
why not? May as well match them
to the rest of me.
All these blues
in different […]
When The Flood Came
Laurel Silverwood
The white dove landed on the roof
and tumbled down the chimney.
It emerged from the […]