is/let

—2016—

nosing muddy clumps

of lily of the valley

i, Gulliver

Donna Fleischer

Aug 20

icy track

stumbling on

the business end

Helen Buckingham

Aug 21

that water in a glass in the water feeling

John Stevenson

Aug 22

both of all

naked as

the under sun

John Stevenson

Aug 25

Bob Dylan

left knee

right knee

John Stevenson

Aug 26

o uch t s y

Metod Češek

Aug 27

mollusk blue radiation tattoos

home on one

muscular foot

Patrick Sweeney

Aug 31

until one accumulates enough to resemble a head

David Boyer

Sept 1

if you think so too a petal in the wind

Don Baird

Sept 2

one world

after another

buttonbush

john martone

Sep 4

heart to heart but always the same castle

of bone

Gary LeBel

Sept 5

the mouths of rain that eat at your will

Gary LeBel

Sep 5

from the messenger of blood a report

from Olduvai

Gary LeBel

Sep 5

moon how about alone

Elmedin Kadric

Sept 10

trains on time

keep your incision

clean

Roland Packer

Sept 18

Roland Packer

Sept 18

death leaves its August number

Cherie Hunter Day

Sept 18

grief a saw blade in the mirror

Cherie Hunter Day

Sept 18

bullet the window of his demands

Cherie Hunter Day

Sept 18

cherry pits in a white bowl hologram

Brent Goodman

Sept 24

when guitar strings rust autumn colors

Brent Goodman

Sep 24

snow on the furrow to be wave and particle and home

Dan Schwerin

Sep 24

road to Damascus

then a bath

or the meal

Dan Schwerin

Sept 24

galaxy

LeRoy Gorman

Oct 1

newsroom

LeRoy Gorman

Oct 1

Snowflakes BY DONALD RUMSFELD

Evidently unknown evidence . . .

Eve Luckring

Oct 1

Figure c: Trading bones for passage.

Mike Andrelczyk

Oct 1

two crows circle a drizzle the field begins to drift

marlene mountain

Oct 1

later the day

marlene mountain

Oct 1

a beast with several backs newts in love

marlene mountain

Oct 1

end of the aisle he transfers her to him

marlene mountain

Oct 1

light painting the veins

of birds fish the surface

life something of where

Rebecca Lilly

Oct 7

in its furrows tides turn

red first a breeze opens

a wing then another

Rebecca Lilly

Oct 7

voice, I, personally

grasp the admittedly

only now beginning

Rebecca Lilly

Oct 7

a full-grown marigold of whatever makes sense

Elmedin Kadric

Oct 16

you so much so that a shark becomes a rose

Elmedin Kadric

Oct 16

white bird the memories you worry

Sandi Pray

Oct 16

fine lines the different degrees of seclusion

Sandi Pray

Oct 16

even if i were sleeping dawn bird

Sandi Pray

Oct 16

thorns love must wait for you mourn

Adrian Bouter

Oct 29

you can forget yourself finding her in this

John Levy

Oct 29

it is enough that my crow thinks me a deity

Patrick Sweeney

Oct 29

I know the sparrows in my neighborhood

Solitude hops

on skinny ankles

Patrick Sweeney

Oct 29

limping right up

to the cessation

of orange scrub grass

Patrick Sweeney

Oct 29

spring a girl with a hand-written letter on a leash

David Boyer

Nov 5

failing that another body part can be displayed such as the crocus

David Boyer

Nov 5

boulders and other human words twilight as a verb

David Boyer

Nov 5

day moon's

grumbling

appendix

Helen Buckingham

Nov 5

older

than all day

the rock’s smooth parts

Gary Hotham

Nov 5

space probe circling pluto

a small coin

to the boatman

Robert Witmer

Nov 12

despite the chill trillium

S. M. Kozubek

Nov 12

laughing in the dark the forgotten child

Lee Gurga

Nov 12

night held the blackened wheels

Cherie Hunter Day

Nov 12

how clean this lobby of echoes

Cherie Hunter Day

Nov 12

awakening in the village of crickets

my Zygalsky sheets

chewed simple

Patrick Sweeney

Nov 12

war

a

word

a

way

Elmedin Kadric

Nov 20

river skirts the rock

and leaves

this country, cold

Dan Schwerin

Nov 20

Aleppo, period. Full stop.

Dan Schwerin

Nov 20

trumpets damn all

Adrian Bouter

Nov 20

maybe a parrot shrieks

the cliff diver’s red speedo

Peter Yovu

Dec 2

crows at the carcass

so many

shining teeth

Peter Yovu

Dec 2

a hard rain my

resurrected umbrella’s

skin and bones

Peter Yovu

Dec 2

ascending the escalator

wax in the cultist’s ear

Philip Rowland

Dec 3

Absence of axes.

Just the slow falling of snow,

A cure taking hold.

(after Rebecca Elson)

Philip Rowland

Dec 3

a leaf of as if to begin again

Philip Rowland

Dec 3

tick for fuck

Philip Rowland

Dec 3

night

river

river

night

mind

river

river

mind

night

river

mind

river

river

night

night

mind

Philip Rowland

Dec 3

the rest of your life ever more deeply embedded in quotes

Philip Rowland

Dec 3

it’s a kind of light leaf shadows

Chris Gordon

time

while we

talk about it

Chris Gordon

where the flies

are a blue

wrapper

Chris Gordon

across the valley

controlled burns

converge

Chris Gordon

I didn’t miscalculate I was just incorrect

Chris Gordon

her fancy the deaf guy with a gun

Chris Gordon

the numbers on the screen have changed

Chris Gordon

your man an advertisement for men

Chris Gordon

the new magazine has dissolved

Chris Gordon

Saturn doesn’t hate you he just doesn’t care

Chris Gordon

Dec 11

in the north a beetle whose shell reflects a break with our stars

David Boyer

Dec 18

I see your crab prince and raise an abalone shell

David Boyer

Dec 18

the goldilocks zone of regret the factory of leaves leaves

David Boyer

Dec 18

brick wrapped in wallpaper and his stupid toupee

David Boyer

Dec 17

with a shrug America turns a pigeon into a dinosaur

David Boyer

Dec 17

a fateful glitch in the holographic president's ancient code

David Boyer

Dec 17

eight the other numbers which is why it's so fat

David Boyer

Dec 17

sidesteps his heart. Then, a telegram of diamond

David Boyer

Dec 20

which tracks an elastic mood. In her sea you see

David Boyer

Dec 20

struggling back. In autumn light false starts

David Boyer

Dec 20

shop

hard

sky

Helen Buckingham

Dec 27

Goldilocks zone

I

of the storm

Roland Packer

Dec 27

.

two lakes too outside

Elmedin Kadric

Dec 29

if kept in the dark

Elmedin Kadric

Dec 29

how we kept birdsong on foot

Elmedin Kadric

Dec 29

if you know you can you meow

Elmedin Kadric

Dec 29

rose

bud

way

out

Elmedin Kadric

Dec 29

a soul to lick the envelope the stamp

Elmedin Kadric

Dec 29

dawn’s same bits of seconds

the green hummingbird

goes by

Patrick Sweeney

Dec 29

Scottish mist

laugh-track

is born

Patrick Sweeney

Dec 29

at his age

my big toe must accept

a dip in the Nile

Patrick Sweeney

Dec 29

purple moor grass

the year she went

barefoot

Patrick Sweeney

Dec 29

11/8 stands here now at the start and at the end of the sea

Scott Metz

Dec 31

the wine dark sea dear empire politicians

Scott Metz

Dec 31

only the colors change war mask

Scott Metz

Dec 31

and flaps like a flag in the wind there now here before us

Scott Metz

Dec 31

the hologram says so they hate them and buy more this winter

Scott Metz

Dec 31

the water we drink they’d bomb make-believe countries

Scott Metz

Dec 31

some of the old stars have become new stars your body

Scott Metz

Dec 31

so i guess we’re a lot like leaves

Scott Metz

Dec 31

is/let

—2016—