Try compost – scraps / piled into a heap. The forgotten things / are begging for another life. Let’s say you could / get the dirt to sing.
Featured Poetry
When All Your Seeds Fail
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by Simon Perchik
wobbling from some near-by breeze / reaching down as the hillside / where her shadow should be
MAYDAY Announces Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest
Submissions are open for the MAYDAY Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest! Deadline to submit is July 31.
Human Sacrifice
by Krista Leahy
Wall, enemy, ally, shadow, tree, a toddler / given freedom to roam, requires one // banana-nut muffin, many hands, 56 / minutes to walk one Brooklyn city block.
Unbelong
by Mandira Pattnaik
Did you see a hapless, hunted woman, baby in arms? Her stare’s hollow. // Ahead of her, there’s a slithering line beaded with nowhere people.
While my Wife Is in the Hospital Recovering from a Stroke
by Richard-Yves Sitoski
There’s nothing to eat but fruit from baskets sent by friends // and I couldn’t care less about the fate of the world.
Weeds
by Barbara Schwartz
I think I am my savior’s thoughts, the stubborn beautiful ones / who refuse to go. It’s a temple in here / though I do not know // the prayers.
Empress of Ice Cream
by Barbara Schwartz
Hunger sneaks up // like two fingers flicking a pink / succulent moon.
Signed for the Unsigned
by Stella Santamaría
/ imported by the cities of / howling beach =artificial coral / on the bone knife of my corona / ring of past
Scaffold
by Jad Josey
How to say that we are all / of these stars, that I want / the suffering I cause to be less / than the raindrops on the fern fronds / outside their fog-blurred windows
