Song

Rose Auslander — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:00:40 +0000

As you swing

it tumbles from you,

untethered by tune,
uncluttered by words,
all that remains is

song.

Emma Taylor is a psychologist, writer, and mother of impossibly many children. To see more of her work, visit http://licktheplate.wordpress.com and follow her at @emmataylorwords.

Separated by

Rose Auslander — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:55:54 +0000

all this social media
have we forgotten
how to tell a good story
from just lies?

Jim Spencer is a zen priest, trucker, farm hand, father, husband – but not necessarily in that order. For more of his work, visit http://www.jimspencerpoetry.com

lamppost planets

Rose Auslander — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:49:32 +0000

pearling the dark,

their earthbound galaxy
hovers over
the cobble-stoned street—

Kristen Zimmer is an English Literature student at the University of Toronto. Her poetry has been published in the UC Review, The Humming Magazine, and Vagabond City. To see more of Kristen’s work, also visit her blot at https://www.instagram.com/zimmmmmmer/

Ready, Set, Go

Rose Auslander — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:41:07 +0000

Blowing in a sand court,

I might have been wearing a tawny field

of dust, a carnival field,

the people waiting to be let in for the fireworks

in the yard where tents stood,

boiling water for grey porridge

on a hill of pines,

in the cold wood morning

I might have laid your pale coat across my lap

Offering up poems as a language of shared experience, Rachel Elion Baird’s poems are confessional and often visual; unfolding stories through descriptive imagery. For more of her work, visit http://rachelbairdart.com/words and follow her @rachelbaird1122

Watch [Your] Language

Rose Auslander — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:36:50 +0000

she may translate
him [short i]
for you
[no good-bye]

substitute
his active verbs
[no protection]
for your
dangling modifiers

Kyle Hemmings is a retired health care worker who’s been published in many journals. Also visit her work at https://upatberggasse19.blogspot.com/ and follow her at @smersh01.

Petrichor

Rose Auslander — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:33:27 +0000

Taste the rain
loitering
in the breeze

and I’ll kiss you
the way
raindrops fall.

Austin Davis is a young poet living in Mesa, Arizona. See more of his work in Little Village Magazine and Pif Magazine, and follow him at @Austin_Davis17.

While home calls me

Rose Auslander — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:30:26 +0000

Beyond vivid violet
dreams fill with color,
memories flood from beyond,
and I whisper back to them.

For more of Maribel C. Pagan’s work, visit http://therollinghills.wordpress.com/ and @maribelauthor12.

haiku (untitled)

Rose Auslander — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:26:33 +0000

abrupt summer rain…
on the asphalt
scattered puddles of blue

Tunisian poet Ali Znaidi is the author of several chapbooks, including Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015). To see more of his work visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com and follow @AliZnaidi.

Projectiles

Rose Auslander — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:22:15 +0000

In the bluntest of terms
they describe
a wicked arc
on the night sky
the glossy page
the insides of your eyelids
and leave the details
to your overwrought
imagination.

Jeffrey Park lives in Goettingen, Germany and teaches General English and Scientific English at the Georg-August-Universitaet. For more of his work, visit http://www.scribbles-and-dribbles.com

Cirrus vertebratus

Rose Auslander — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:15:32 +0000

fishbone sky —
this morning’s walk
across skeleton leaves

Julie Bloss Kelsey likes short-form poetry, iced decaf lattes, and the Oxford comma. To see more of her work, visit http://www.starsinmysugarbowl.wordpress.com