the spider in the room
plastic plants
this pain is historical,
says the therapist
Kelly Sauvage Moyer/Agnes Eva Savich
tiny haibun
Neologism
Lexicographer! Get your ostrich quill and palimpsest!
strazhmus
the flominal
of blipblap
Joshua St. Claire
Braggadocio
Honestly, it just kills me to say “premiums” instead of “premia.”
haiku the other white meat
Joshua St. Claire
Marcescence
my dryer is lying to me
wet moon
Billy Joel
as a verb
Joshua St. Claire
CONFLICT
I am so sick to hear only conversations in Russian or Ukrainian. I ask my wife if there’re breaking news about the war. “Nothing” she says.
shelling goes on
watching her past
collapse
Andrea Cecon
Sepia
sitting cowboy style in a tub while the ceiling drools for all us sinners what business is that
smoke the sweat of a glass
Mikael Kales
Laurels
…and to think my shiny new goat feet might soon be dancing in that grove that Natalie was singing about all those years ago…
paleodicots being the other it
Joshua St. Claire
Dot Matrix Squinter
Sometimes we forget that Lichtenstein is a major pointillist just as much as he is minor country, a museum, a book, and a hill.
onomatopoeia
I just can’t
do this anymore
Joshua St. Claire
Heartleap of Words
Imbued with a tincture the air of a bleak midwinter. Dark boughs etch a horizon where dark birds flit like filings of iron..
horseshoe magnet
the rainbow a mirror
of shooting stars caught
Diana Webb
Winning by Default
Long story short I can’t play chess because I think a draw is a win. I don’t care that I can’t win, only that you can’t.
c(rook)ed moon dangling gerunds
Susan Burch
the other bunny 