Self-Portrait as Friend, or Variations of a Hallmark Greeting Card
Alton Melvar M Dapanas
“I was the Gone Girl, you were the after-nuclear attack thriving cockroach.”
Thanksgiving, 2020
Ace Boggess
“I’m grateful you’ve survived this long.
I’ll text you my recipe for air.”
Deconstruction for Juniors
Barry Peters
“How there’s nobody with a gun
bustin in right now?”
Victor Road Boys
Robert Vaughan
we could barely breathe
laughing so hard while
building our own
shadow houses
The Commonplace
Carol Casey
“And in this other time and place we would not even know we were safe, or what it means to have the commonplace.”
The Looting
Jeremy Szuder
“The first thing they did was
break out all the windows of my room.”
Skeleton Hospital
Howie Good
“If I knew how things were going to turn out, I suppose I wouldn’t have bothered smiling.”
Blue Masks
Greg Keeler
“It didn’t take long before I was glowering at others who’d forgotten theirs.”
Overheard in a Church Basement on Christmas Eve
Catherine Gigante-Brown
Poem for a man in search of some basic human dignity.
Biting a Penny
DS Maolalaí
“the city, from
some angles, explodes
like an overstuffed flowerpot.”
