Distilling wonder into a few choice words.
She Dreams Thinking
A tempting teases Barbie. She dreams...
Wanderlust
We came from a world far away...
Through the Lens of Longing
Sometimes, I think I can stop Time, you know? Almost. (I wish I could.)
Echoes Through the Vacuum
aim the ears; angle the orbitals | toward the deep field | for echoes
By the End
By the fifteenth month of the drought | the lake no longer hid her secrets
Phenom
By Nora Weston - unexplainable. exasperating, too, as he breathes life into Carrara marble, skilled like a clone of Michelangelo.
Journey to the Center of the Poem
To Jules Verne | By Gene Twaronite - Dare I follow the cryptic runes of Saknussemm, descending into the shadow-kissed crater to follow unknown tunnels to the center?
Changing Woman Gives Birth to Coyote
by Betsy James
Your two-penny face,
bright as your father's,
wrinkled tight.
जंगली गुलाब/Jangli Gulaab (Briar Rose)
by Shveta Thakrar
So red this rose
Brambles burst from my mouth
(Stammers strangled into sterile silence)
Beneath Red Regolith
by WC Roberts
Striding tall on spider legs it scans the regolith
the ping of refined metal set off
the protocols
antenna disk cocked upward