This block of dogs rants,
a million fat ids
screaming for love,
their non-factor benefactors
raining deep, shuddered roars,
as gods in black moods.
Fangs bared, spitting, bawled to the sky:
"We are good! We are good! We are good!
We are goooooooooood!”
Chris Sumberg’s poems have been anthologized in MWPH Books’ Local News: Poetry About Small Towns and tdotSpec’s The Hamthology. His poems also have been published by RealPoetik, Poetry Café / Wide Load, Tin Wreath, Chronogram, Thunder Sandwich, Lilliput Review, Ant Farm, and Pemmican.
ISSUE TWENTY FOUR: Systemly Real
Karen Neuberg
Advice
All my shoes are dancing shoes,
all my shadows lead home
Nicholas Alti
dance dance dance ghoul sing ghoul be
I, EXACTLY LIKE RAINWATER,
SLIP TOWARD WORMS UNNOTICED
Chris Sumberg
DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!!
DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!!
Colleen Anderson
Schrodinger's Box