Risqué Business

Loveliness. Simply. Squarely. Inscribed in a square. Whirling. Wobbling. Come. And fallen off. Into. Loveliness. Which because it is its own self. Does what pleases it most. Spanning and climbing and sliding. The. Loveliness. Terrain. So that moving. Twisting. Lifting. It. Is. Lovely. All face. But not facile at all. And not beyond. Most definitely not beyond. As if. The comma. Between the here. Passing. And the there. Waiting to pass. Which waits. And, then. Waits for itself. Waiting. So that there is never space. For anything. But loveliness.

Vishal Prabhu

Risqué Business

Bird dream

Last night I dreamt yet again
about that flock of white birds
flying over the ocean.
A few weeks back, early March,
Jane and Anne insisted that
we pile into the carriage
and take a trip to the sea –
the last time I’d left the house.
I didn’t feel much like going
but let them force the issue.
It was quite a longish day
and I was over-wearied
when we finally returned.

I swear, while there, that I saw
a white bird dive arrow-straight
into the sea and fly out
with a small fish in its mouth.
That’s when I first had the dream;
and since then on many nights.

David Kelly

Bird dream

Bomb(l)ast

His letters jostle for position in his speech notes. The j’s, q’s, and z’s displace dotted i’s and crossed t’s. A c devises a coup, but the cavalry of k’s cuts off the offensive by paragraph number two. Still skulking somewhere off his page, a group of l’s corrals the vowels.freed speech
the vowels divide
by zero

Colleen M. Farrelly

Bomb(l)ast

Wolf 

Huff and puff and I’ll blow

She collects the overspill straw from attempts at a crib

Huff and puff and I’ll blow

She collects all the sticks from the stick men game they got tired of playing

Huff and puff and I’ll blow

She sees it up there over chimney of brick

back hole
insert the moon
here

coral pink
the penny drops
no light

How weird was that a howl in the dark

Diana Webb

Wolf