by Daniel Edward Moore

“There’s nothing subtle about it. / The wind’s clean teeth chew the earth / like a famished friend / that conspires with the dark to spare the eyes / a lesson in rip and run.”

by Karina Longo

“Sometimes a tap of water is just / what it is. It is there not just to clean; / but to nourish, too.”

by Alan Catlin

“Year of the dragon gangsters, stiletto tough / and Brylcreme slick…”

by Paul Ilechko

“these scars of memory that reappear / denying all possibility of sleep / cutting through time to deliver images / of a wrist enveloped in silver bracelets…”

by Reebie Flowers

“Beautiful interpretations on life are magical. / Such a domino effect when one can transmute what was supposed to destroy you. / Unglue the bonded spells you simultaneously outgrew.”

by Alex Carrigan

“I passed a lot of planets on my journey, but they’re always too far off for me to be pulled in. I’m starting to wish my parents gave me something to cuddle with in here.”

by Walter Skinner

“dissolving dreams / of dali inside / a swaying ship…”

by Jack D. Harvey

“Hello Miss Bright as a dime, / dressed to kill and / sheathed hard in the blazing light / of this New Jersey casino.”

by mike sluchinski

“barrels and seashores / can’t contain it / i put a flag down on my / memory night / those bad dreams / those hard diamonds / we like to sweat out…”

by Mark LaMonda

“The morning cat ricochets off your walls, / doesn’t care if you live, / who you harm, / just wants its breakfast, and wants it now.”

by Louis Bourgeois

“there are circumstances that are irredeemable for the victims of those circumstances and the crimes of the perpetrators can only be remonstrated through the shedding of / Their blood— / Your blood—”

by Carella Keil

“Self-portrait of an Art Gallery / And the third page of goodbye / In your loose-leaf paper heart / It's over…”

by Patrick Johnston

“I know things that you don’t know. / With that in mind, let’s look closely at some termites.”

by Joe Bisicchia

“There are no puppets here in our Gethsemane, / our city park of opioids and hard to reach hot pretzels.”

by Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn

“This is as good a memory as I can get / playing diabetes roulette at a vending machine.”

by Joe Coy

“…now we muster in once-bustling streets or / relax on the roofs of buildings we care for together and / collectively gaze at a no longer invisible sky…”

by herny 7. reneau, jr.

“If you listen , people will tell you exactly what they want , and / what they are willing to do to get it .”

by Lilith Acadia

“…I remember my teacher / who wore her pet chameleon / like a living brooch, it always / matched her top.”