miCRo: “The Eco-Audiologist, After Hearing” by Haley Bossé
A meditative eco-miCRo that asks us to slow down and witness the missing.
miCRo: “The Violet Hour” by Radian Hong
This prose poem captures a modern relationship hollow from within, echoing T. S. Eliot.
miCRo: “May the circle be broken” by Bob Hicok
A masterful poem that moves from harm to care
miCRo: “Push-Pull” by Robert Warf
In Robert Warf’s “Push-Pull,” driving yields a kind of oppositional syntax.
miCRo: “(FG+FD+FM+FB) = ” by M.E. Macuaga
Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe.
miCRo: “Aspen” by Michael O’Ryan
Michael O’Ryan’s cinematographic poem is imbued with a sibyllic mood.
miCRo: “Litany of Kill” by Letitia Jiju
Bless the fangblenny masquerading / as something of a lesser bite
miCRo: “Before the Wedding” by Cassandra Whitaker
Cassandra Whitaker’s epithalamium is a breathless wreath of anticipation, retrospection and contemplation.
miCRo: “Melody” by Jason R. Chun
And I was ready for it, the salt-laced soap stinging red at the corners of my vision, waterfall over my eyeballs, and Mel’s messages front and center, lurid but legible. I was ready to delete.
miCRo: “Perigee” by Steven Pan
To keep score / hunger adds to itself, asymptotic to a whole.
miCRo: “Revision” by B. Do
In B. Do’s moving piece, revision is not merely a means to an end; rather, there is a truth in and an ethical weight to the act of revision itself.
miCRo: “Lake Effect” by Mark Budman
He prefers happier stories: “The girl and the boy loved each other. They got married. The end.” But the happy stories don’t last long.
