winter funeral
our plumes of breath
drawing veils
John Hawkhead
solar eclipse
splashing black ink
up to the sky
Xiaoou Chen
*
inundation
floating markets
in downtown
Xiaoou Chen
early morning—
she wakes to the sound
of
splintering glass
Lafcadio
*
resurrecting
buried memories
the past
won't stay hidden even
if
the grave is deep
Lafcadio
dissecting
the revenant
thunderstorms
Jerome Berglund
*
angry baby’s
apparition intermittent
lightning
flashes
Jerome Berglund
blood moon
swirling in the glass
a
nice chianti
petro c. k.
*
echoing inside . . .
first clump of dirt
hitting
the coffin
petro c. k.
new moon fog
ghost
deer dart
JL Huffman
*
murder of crow’s feet
unlaughable
lines
JL Huffman
pumpkin pulp
wriggles through fingers—
creating
a new face
Eavonka Ettinger
*
crows gather
to greet the dead
a
thin veil
Eavonka Ettinger
chronic pain
I hear the doctor
order
leeches
Lafcadio
*
pierced skin—
a wound too deep
for
blood to flow
Lafcadio
beneath the night
wrapped in soft blankets
finger
touching stars
Stephen Jarrell Williams