Rodd Whelpley
if a human can imagine something,
then the universe has done it,
which explains how every morning I wake
next to you
Rodd Whelpley
The question is refrain. Ethan,
each pass through the study list, insists
it means to curb, to stop: will not
consider it as repetition, wants
to argue it’s a breathing spell –
Jeff Ewing
The trail is narrowing …
all this by the purest chance
no cards or leaves could predict,
Forrest Rapier
Once, he was the ark’s dove
heckling every animal with a branch out both sides of his mouth
Ashley Brooke Dailey
I flick the tooth with my tip tongue
& it knocks against its neighbors.
A sound, like the crack of a knuckle
& the tooth, grown nickel-sized
falls into my palm—
William Doreski
Thanks for sharing my canoe.
Yes, I drift around the pond
all day, reading and trusting
what I read, tasting the onset
of colder weather, aching for
the affection of migrating birds.
James Owens
He says, “Clock,”
a little clot of sound,
a hammer blow on something hollow and distant.
Wesley Sexton
At exactly 4:13 PM this would happen,
every day, which is how
one Tuesday at 4:28,
having heard no key-spike and sigh,
I grew slightly worried and wandered
to the kitchen window to investigate.