Concrete

Every day the same day.

Socrates Adams

Blowing bubbles
in
Satan’s face.

Homeless

Grey mollusc, slippery, putrid

Tom Ridley

two-dimensional surface extended infinitely

No Glykon

piss piss piss piss piss

Nick Wort

re-imagining poems as ass poems

Zac Smith

fresh mud on old pants

Zac Smith

considering spoiled milk poured outside

Zac Smith

a cat toy is ambiguous

Zac Smith

drinking things to feel normal

Zac Smith

new windows painted shut

Zac Smith

frustrated, sniffing old laundry

Zac Smith

imagining sneezing in your sleep

Zac Smith

God in the random light

Tom Snarsky

Slip sip ship

Mary Paterson

NOT IN CELEBRATION OF POISON

Jean-Michel Basquiat

she fastens seatbelts onto raindrops

Benjamin Niespodziany

Snow White has mono.

Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich

As if it was not

JD

Black people suffering in China

Adora Lynnaya

Five words.
Perfect length poem.

Bill Yarrow

I
have
to
work
today.

Bill Yarrow

Waning payouts of deferring yourself.

Sam Pink

One two
three four
Poo

Oliver Zarandi

cherish my flailing whiff, please

Tom Laplaige

nobody leave your coffin ok

Tom Laplaige

faced future,
felt pukey.
nope.

Tom Laplaige

The paper mirror, highly erotic

Adrian Belmes

for sale: baby shoes, never

Theo

I’m just
not even

Donald Ryan

An autumn leaf with Tourettes.

Homeless

again around the lake again

zoo austin vincent

Your posture screams your soul.

Homeless

A rosen day trembling silent

Tiff Morris

The grey man laughed quiet

Pohgrize

Nothing soothing soothes me.

Nicole Treska

Yeah, I ignored your text

Kevin Bertolero

SQUARE TRIANGLE NO MORE SHAPES

Nora Claire Miller

the egg as cellular hero

Katherine Beaman

I have eaten your bitcoins

Michael McSweeney

toggling between despair

Josh Sherman

profits are expensive; love isn’t

Bára Hladík

Not feeling sad, but depressed

Victoria Hernandez

My jeans stare in judgement.

Nicole Appleby

bowing to an apoplectic audience

G Trapani

Return
this memory
to flesh.

Joseph Edwin Haeger

Today I should have flown

Scott Manley Hadley

Coyote in the bike lane

Scott Manley Hadley

Insects multiply, too.

Scott Manley Hadley

of at-
most
five words.

Russell Bennetts

sun down an excruciating angle

ESK

Ethereal pliars clutching my soul

B F Jones

First symptom: thinking about it

Elmo

squirrel smiles for better times

Pax Morrigan

it takes shape slowly

iron o. plastic

I think word limits are

Mike Abbott

you know about confusion, right?

Katie Frank

Leaves on trees but lips

Mike Andrelczyk

Floating through centuries —the knife

Mike Andrelczyk

horses galloping into sea horses

Mike Andrelczyk

abandoned musuems transforming into oceans

Mike Andrelczyk

journeying through a deserted sky

Mike Andrelczyk

stillness: cardboard boxes of pecans

Mike Andrelczyk

mountain lions dreaming of mountains

Mike Andrelczyk

caskets floating down the avenue

Mike Andrelczyk

mountains of melting black lipstick

Mike Andrelczyk

filling your house with oceans

Mike Andrelczyk

neon chihuahuas yapping into immensity

Mike Andrelczyk

the Whatman dances dark ballets

Mike Andrelczyk

right on

Charlie Baylis

ideas I’ve covered in velvet

Josh

This

is the way
now.

Travis Cravey

Up, down. Up. Down. Right?

Ken Williams

Edmund’s Grocery dumpster: Christmas, raining.

Michael Brierley

An ugly and rapacious sun

Lucas Ferro

i miss his voice, wow

Alexis Briscuro

academics don't read enough rooms

Lance Milham

Forgot your face again

Aurora Bodenhamer

It looks like I’m waving.

A.S. Coomer

The dead man was dead.

Mike Kleine

I exist, then exit

Derek Maine

dissecting personal thoughts, organs, etc.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

split a watermelon, save me.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

coughing blood into your hair.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

atoms vibrating within our pupils.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

cry, for we just started.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

rotten peaches? now i’m laughing.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

bone broth served in skulls.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

your faces are so warm.

Cavin Bryce Gonzalez

chilling privately
in a burrow

Ian Martin

I watch Kate Moss shave

Giacomo Pope

Sobbing
Our mouths overfull

Giacomo Pope

Cloth adorned with
Wollen daffodils

Giacomo Pope

Glass flows
Softly across glass

Giacomo Pope

fingers tap dancing in formation

Tristan Moss

picture a hot dog bun

Sydney Hirsch

You'll never know. Will you?

Sofia Pignitor

Her absence eclipses even me.

Anna Sanderson

Memory on fire, nothing burns.

Njoku Nonso

waited in line: whole foods

Sophie Jennis

wrapper wrapper wrapper wrapper

Dandy Amberhurst

carrion dreams; such days rend—

Emily Nicol

Billy Goat totes sore throat.

Jordan Clark

Imagine being like, without irony

Alexandra Naughton

Dead Battery

HGTV
infects me

Daniel Bailey

Through the darkness, more darkness.

Simon Brown

Recognizing people by their eyes

Rene

Listened to the rain today

Rene

Ate your Twizzlers. Forgive me.

Corey Burns

below the surface, a light

Stuart Buck

The horse hadn't seen plexiglass.

Joshua Hebburn

MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CARDOOR

Katbug

FACTORY FACTORY FACTORY FACTORY FACTORY

Care

The creatures forfeit their shadows

Brit Weisman

bread butter
and black
coffee.

Steve Anwyll

Nervous gut like garbage truck

Susana Molinolo

Please, no more hermit crabs.

A.B. Olson

Undies are just bum masks

Craft Bogan

Life; we borrow the body.

Lisa Marie Basile

the sky alive with tentacles

John McManus

words from the severed head

Alex Carrasco

turn
ntur
rntu
urnt
turn

kme

this oceaned backbone, your grief—

Kara Knickerbocker

An unsung blessing of sunlight.

Ami Hendrickson

I mourn
for numbers
everyday.

Navid Sh

Pastel sunsets;
Evolving silhouette-
                       Home

Vince Trimboli

manic insomnia:
eternal daydream

Jamie O'Connell

Through air we induce bloodletting

Jamie

Cement frog weeps birdshit tears

Joanna Koch

man getting hit by football

Fintan

The horror of unripe fruit

Gwenyth Scott

a collection of arbitrary reflection

shinekidd

Facedown in a cranberry bog.

Lisa Korzeniowski

darling

John Leo

i, skin and rust, i

Josiah Morgan

My dandelion perished, soul dyed.

GhostyGeist

lichen mapping the river rock

Peter Newton

april heat. hammock swings cool.

B.V. Mahayogi

Suddenly the lungs are beautiful.

Tim Wood

Morning light comes early lately

Stanton Hancock

Sit abreast the plain

Hunter

water cut with night train

Stephen Black

Our eyes, frozen and thawed.

Stephen Black

sourdough in the duck's mouth

aurora

small things: yellow pillow

azealia faze banks

spinning flower in the mouth

David Sater

Shopping List/ razor blades/ stones

Don White

Moon tides swallowing roses

Francesca Gagliano

Oh, brilliant, it's 5am again.

Dan Turner

Did it listen to birds?

John Minichillo

squirrels
inside walls
fixing wires

Dan Bodah

Eye crustees and
Hot coffee

Gwenyth Scott

Please come.
Mum's doing roast.

Mike Woodcock

Seascape swallows some solitary shore.

Savannah

The solace has satisfied me

Kim Ann

Melt your virtue into apathy

Katlina Sommerberg

we walked
the flea's

trail

T.C. Pescatore

FEVER HEAT BLOOD HEAT

Abinadi Meza

double chests

      sinking

            into bloom

Jarrett Moseley

Bananas turned black again.

Lydia Xythali

These poems were collected over 48 hours from a twitter post. Thank you for reading them.