late morning nap my dreams much like snakes in a snake pit
Orrin PréJean
Orrin PréJean, from Port Arthur, Texas, came to EL Short Poetry around 2006. In 2013 he began writing tanka and has since published two collections of tanka. Orrin now focuses on the history and current practices of senryu and is a senryu poet with his first ebook collection of senryu titled October’s Kid.
Announcing our featured poets for July:
Orrin PréJean
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
Keith Evetts
Julie Schwerin
Pippa Phillips
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Their poems from Cold Moon Journal will be published in the upcoming anthology.
Good luck to the 120 poets who will appear in this anthology, topping out the 1371 poems considered. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) will announce the winner after August.
under the sea
yesterdays of time
soaking in the wash
Stephen Jarrell Williams
blending in
with the curtains
at the party
always the wallflower
never the life
Susan Burch
Cup of jazz flavored
With a shot of muddy blues
Setting lips on
fire.
Karen A VandenBos
the air feels
less heavy
smog disappearing
since the day
you
walked out of my life
Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
Shuddering, brilliant
in a skin of azure light:
No
god can stop me.
Shae Krispinsky