Colander, Paul Hostovsk
“put the orchids down there / and watch out for the spine. // it came up in the night like that memory / you hug far too tight”
haiku, Albert Schlaht
“He swaggered along the lip of the pool—she held her breath, knew what came next.
The noise that could destroy daylight, could shake you awake.”
GuitarWolf, Harrison Fisher
“The girl’s demons join hands; they push. Our pair falls to floor. Alice rolls and mounts Edgar. She pulls the coffin-handled bowie knife from her boot, wraps her fingers around its obsidian rivets and presses the blade to his neck. ‘You knew,’ she hisses.”
Immediate Release, Jim Suruda
“As brittle shale pops against the fire / The ghost of an ancient hemlock splinters slowly / A wet and hissing peel. Bark from marrow”