Powered down
the street lights on Main only blink before dawn
like
your
eyes
diluted
like
pill
laden
haze
like
the street lights on Main, before dawn, only blink.
***
Praying frogs can resurrect
Wake to legs, remnants of archway on pavement
much
like
news
too
much
bombings
gunnings
too
much
legs, remnants of archway on pavement, to wake.
Kristina England
7/24/2016
Strangers at Home
Tourists are not immigrants.
Strangers
trying
airport
lights,
strangers
exhausted,
constellations
severing
strangers—
Immigrants are not tourists.
Sarena Tien
7/23/2016
Skinny Skinny
Skinny poem
eats
nouns,
bony
verbs.
Eats
low-
carb
adjectives.
Eats
poem-skinny.
Pam Desloges
7/8/2016
Tree Surgeon
He removed the two dead poplar trees, like worn-out sky-scrapers
Buzz
Chain-saw
Bark
Boots
Buzz
Vertical
Conquest
Thunder
Buzz
Two sky-scrapers, worn-out poplar trees, he removed like the dead
Sarah B. Robinson
7/2/2016
Dream Weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Touch
Skin
Lick
Lips
Touch
Sweat
Slick
Tears
Touch
Believe me I can get you through the night
Karen Bovenmyer
6/30/2016
Tombstone
to dust, pale shadow; stone
grey
motes
dance
despite
grey
soft
tears
fallen
grey
stone shadow pales to dust
Barbara Turney Wieland
7/1/2016
Attached Photo: Alexander Stevens, chief scientist and geologist for the Ross Antarctic Sea Party on-board the Aurora in McMurdo Sound, c. 1915, from a negative found a century later in a hut at Cape Evans, Antarctica. Source: Antarctic Heritage Trust <https://www.nzaht.org/pages/ross-sea-party-photos>.
Alexander’s Onetime Band
Alexander
frozen
nebulously
amidst
antarctically
frozen
aurora
developing
photographically
frozen
Alexander.
James Penha
6/28/2016
The Skinny Poetry Nation 