In my tomb of words built by the sentences that didn’t make sense Typing errors line my coffin burying me in out-of-place punctuation Every grammatical mistake on display for people …
Evolution of a Kind (Mark William Jackson)
How do we rule? In words derived from Latin? Whispers from a dead tongue? Rolling with the punches, crippled by the lunches, feasts of fat men suffering in …
What Does It Mean? (Emilie Collyer)
O One One has One his has be One it his mean has this be One I it when his .mean something has before this Can be ? One the …
Sail (Sam van Zweden)
I heard they built streets in Europe on dead river beds throwing down tiles in denial when it rains streets flood al fresco floating down stream deluge-diluted lattes gondolas …
A Grave Turn (Ashley Capes)
streets have a saliva sheen, the stones bathing in it. fog is school-pants grey, thick on the tongue. the older trams shudder until they stop and the conductor retires. drunks …
Bag Bog Cat, the Caterpillar an’ the Glue Man (Andrew Galan)
Horse serrations vibrate floorboards ta’ squeal a rockin’ billycock woe · · an’ we was diggin’ ditches an’ shovelin’ mud an’ burnin’ faeces when the Caterpillar said sorry, sorry was for …
The Upstairs Food Court (Andrew Galan)
Rubber tyre rolls bain-marie aisles grips heavy toddler centrifugally snug three kids run beside reaching pushing scream delight across fluorescent tiles tread bounces down metal staircase arm waves round’n’round …
The List Grows (Emilie Collyer)
This is what you can’t do. It’s a list that grows. Like that taunt boys used to write on blackboards: the more you rub the bigger it gets. Pink …
Wrinkled Time (Gabrielle Bryden)
Madeleine L’Engle wrinkled time. crumples, crinkles, dips waves, ripples, loops stringy twirls oscillating tendrils freewheelin’ in non-linear time Breath ceases, baby cries for the first time, life …
The Petrov Poems: Done (Lesley Lebkowicz)
He slides the documents out of the KGB safe into an envelope and settles his future under his shirt – its straight edges buckle against his belly. He buttons …