the scene yesterday
of the mountain
lion’s rip—feathers
and blood scattered
-Tub by David Giannini on the Chattahoochee Review website.
the scene yesterday
of the mountain
lion’s rip—feathers
and blood scattered
-Tub by David Giannini on the Chattahoochee Review website.
My laptop is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn my laptop as a brother.
-This Laptop Kills Fascists by William Walsh on the >kill author website.
Cemeteries bled with dried grass, russet
and bronzed leaves, as if I kept dropping
flames the shape of my mother’s eyes
-June’s Child by Mary Stone Dockery on the Thrush website.
A demon sits
knitting
in the corner
of all poetry.
-Poem by Scott Honeycutt in NOON: journal of the short poem.
with nothing to cut they grow
through lip, chin, mouth, bone.
spacer
Pierce slow as continental drift,
mouths wired shut, bully’s gift.
-Eight Grade Science: Darwin Et Cetera by Christopher Hennessey on the Your Impossible Voice website.
The syringe’s silver slips through skin to flesh
easier than sunlight through glass,
and every bit as glinting.
-The Things We Can’t by Sarah James on the Poetry 24 website.
Wiregrass litters the pine flatwoods
and whispers softly in the winter breeze,
dormant buds patiently preparing
for the cleansing flames of spring.
-Torchwood by Brian Caskey on the Palaver website.
In place of heralds singing the first dawn,
only a lifting of their equine heads,
a stillness in the herd to mark the warmth
stirring an almost-barren deep.
-The Seahorses by Louise Green on the Acumen website.
The crows settling into the trees
make a deafening racket as if
outraged by the sun going down
-Where Good Night And Shut Up Sound The Same by Paul Hunter on The Raven Chronicles’s website.
time packed in that wound like bodies on ships
-Subcutaneous by Rina Nk on the Duende website.