concealed by soil a seed uncurls her name
—Kat Lehmann
cloudburst
the interruption
of em dashes
—Kat Lehmann
Birds: define, then scatter. Then repeat.
—Josh Massey
Artists—avoid cars and other vehicles!
Spinning wheels are not your friends!
—Josh Massey
New Life Omen
A charcoal taste.
The flight of ghosts.
—Briar Ripley Page
Flight Omen
Three severed bird wings dance across the asphalt, trailing red strings.
—Briar Ripley Page
seedless rain the morgue in me
—Lithica Ann
Pirates, hunting rock
crystals in a bowl of sea, kiss
the voyages still.
—Prosper Ìféányí
the cicada caught in the spider web
no longer has robin’s egg blue wings.
—Linda M. Crate
dusk downpour
frozen by lightning
hummingbird
—Robbie Gamble
infinite smallness
when he asks me to look for
bacchus on the moon
—Valerie Wong
half of me erased the sky inherited by crows
—rs
the glide of the scalpel down the belly of the cloud
—rs
mudlark the blue-green shift of eyes
—rs
Beach day
gull screams scrape the blue
crabs sand scrabbling like dogs
dead jelly dries up
—Adrienne Pilon
calving glacier another cycle of boom and bust
—Debbie Strange
—L. M. Cole
Deficit
Unmoored in my thoughts,
Narrow blue pill my lighthouse.
Whatever works, right?
—Emily Neuharth
“Are you sitting down?”
My ex came back
Into my life today but
He’s gone forever
—Emily Neuharth
papier-mâché
how do I hold myself?
—Aishwarya Vedula
widening my view sea salt rose
—Aishwarya Vedula
the dog on the bench keeps barking
& the man sitting with him keeps repeating
I don’t’ know what to say — I love you man
—Mikey Swanberg
rippled wake—
as long as it takes
—Shloka Shankar
raindrops sliding down glass :: the blue-grey light of living
—Shloka Shankar
—Shloka Shankar
My Fourteenth Great-Grandfather was a Conquistador
Aren’t we tired of this story? The dead behind us, the dead between us.
The dead on their way from tomorrow’s rounds.
Like the motmot bird, without a second thought, I sup on poisonous things.
Make nutrients of the fatal face in mine, minerals of slime.
—heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
—rs and Shloka Shankar