Awry Robbery by Jacob Mackin

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Stuck in a vaultPlan’s gone wrongLife brought to a haltBlaring the siren’s song Cruisers outsideOut with a mapThe building outlined“It may be a trap” Hostages hastily tiedForces ready to collideAs they enterThe robbers surrender [tabby title="Poet Bio"]...

Ants in a Death Spiral by Aaishah Mayet

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] We are antsIn the ways we build and farmMany legs raising societies on the nectar of mealy bugs We are antsAs we split into colourised warring factions:"Reconcile or What?""Forgiveness is tiring" We are antsAnd the flood of...

A Poem A Day Writing Prompt 17 December 2023

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The Bridge Bends by Khaya Maseko

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] The body is the bridge between thought and deed.Today, I ask you to relinquish your habitat for as long as it takes.Each thing takes.Toll-free is a fiction.Fiction and lies are married, with children.Pathology is damage to the...

Restricted (Not) by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Yearsweigh heavysupple skeletonbends bedeviledtime’s slow spiralgravity’s gyrationsneuron’s slower speedmuscles knotin needskin thinsshins jutsag of buttdroop of spinethickened nailcurve of toesso it goesgums recedecataracts strikecold bitescan’t drivestick self inside No you sayfind the wayout the doorthere’s morethere’s moremeeting...