He stares at me silently when I ask the question. Then I smile and say: “Yeah… well, it serves to clarify the situation, but for the rest it is useless…”

MRI scan
I call the doctor by name
for the first time

Andrea Cecon

i tell her i had a dream about her – we were in a scottish hotel, on the run for some unknown crime. she says she wishes it was real.

on the window
with the ocean view
birdshit

Stephen Toft

I don’t really remember the day, but suddenly there where two opinions about saving human lives …

shipwrecked
a seagull quarrels
with the silence

Eva Limbach

. . . a quattuordecillion ultramarine buckminsterfullerene hemidemisemiquavering tintinnabulations . . .

overtime—
bubbling with surprise
test tube contents

.

[Translation: a quattuordecillion (a very large number) ultramarine buckminsterfullerene (blue geometric carbon, etc.) hemidemisemiquavering (sixty-fourth note) tintinnabulations . . . (ringing, tinkling)]

Anna Cates