stormwater drain

by on Apr 6, 2018

 

stormwater drain
men fishing
bodies
out

 


Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy is a psychiatrist from Bengaluru India, living in England. A trained vocalist and a composer in Indian Classical Music, he writes in Kannada, Sankethi, Tamil and English languages. His haikai writings have been published in reputed journals and anthologies and won prizes, worldwide. He is currently the Editor of the Blithe Spirit, journal of The British Haiku Society.

Upside Down

by on Apr 4, 2018

What if the monster in your dream is just you?

same coin
the shadow
and the self

 


Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is an award-winning poet who has been featured in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Acorn, Presence, and many other publications. She is the founder and director of The Co-op Poetry Lab. To read more of her work visit after pink.

Moth

by on Mar 29, 2018

Luminous
reflection of the moon’s
cool elegance
another light floating
across night’s dark acre
out of place
clinging to my wall
unmoving or unable to move
one curving underwing
half torn off
casualty of a night bird’s hunger
broken, still beautiful, shining
here in daylight
where you don’t belong

 


Mary McCarthy has always been a writer, as well as a visual artist and a Registered Nurse. She has had many publications in online and print journals, including The Ekhprastic Review, Three Elements, Earth’s Daughters and Third Wednesday, and has an electronic chapbook, Things I Was Told Not to Think About available as a free download from Praxis Magazine.

Black ants carrying

by on Mar 28, 2018

a millipede body,
a paper dragon, bound

home from our festivals.

 


Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo teaches at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and blogs at tekstong bopis. His works have appeared in Plural, Epizootics!, Transit, Bukambibig, {m}, and The Cabinet.

mosquitoes

by on Mar 26, 2018

 

mosquitoes…
pumpjacks plunge into
parched land

 


Ben Groner III (Nashville, TN), recipient of Texas A&M University’s 2014 Gordone Award for undergraduate poetry, has work published in Appalachian Heritage, New Mexico Review, Gnarled Oak, Third Wednesday, The Bookends Review, and elsewhere. You can see more of his work at bengroner.com/creative-writing/

old friends

by on Mar 22, 2018

 

old friends
I add more sugar
to the tea cups

 


David He has been working as an advanced English teacher for 35 years in a high school. So far he has had twenty short English stories published in anthologies. In recent years he has had haiku published in magazines like Acorn, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Rocket bottles, Frogpond, A One Hundred Gouges, Shamrock, First Literary Review-East, Modern Haiku, Frozen Butterfly and some international magazines. He has also had tanka published in Tanka of America, Skylark, Ribbones and Cattails. He lives in Gansu Province, China.

Poetry

by on Mar 21, 2018

She’s fond of kicking the door
wide open entirely too late at night
wearing wild hair and her take-no-prisoners red boots–

      Let’s get this party started!

What can I do?
She won’t take no for an answer.
Insists I call her Roxanne.

In the morning I will have to explain again
to my husband why I came so late to bed.

 


Robin Turner is the author of bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women (Porkbelly Press, 2016). A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Psaltery & Lyre, 3Elements Literary Review, and in the magical White Rock Zine Machine. Robin works, plays, and daydreams in Dallas, Texas.

Practice of Leaving

by on Dec 18, 2017

I watch my body every night,
how it practices leaving,
the bed becomes a boat,
the sheet a sail
and the frame a prow.
I watch my body every night
rehearse its last goodbye,
how the stars lose their sway,
rust weakens the locks on doors
and windows become porous.
I watch how the cuckoo
escapes the clock every hour.

 


Chumki Sharma is a poet from Calcutta, India. She is a 2017 semi finalist of the Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award and is the author of Shape of Emptiness published by the Vine Leaves Press, Melbourne.