Poetry | Abyss & Apex

First Contact

Ken Poyner

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First Contact

Most everyone was expecting Little gray men, two black Shiny hard-plastic-seeming eyes, Two spindly arms, four […]

Cat Dixon

The Distance The rockets, like shooting stars, zip across the sky, and the red glare will leave its imprint on […]

Lauren McBride

A Planet’s Complaint My land was perfectly dry and barren until contaminating asteroids blasted into my atmosphere hurling […]

Tiffany Morris Surfacing The siren, in silence, scales the blue-wave cathedral to the surface. She bathes in red light on […]

Jacqueline West Runaway You come back with your hair a knot to your waist, wild as a nest of vines, […]

Helga Kidder

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After the War

The woman who fled the communists lived next door, knitted for money. Once she ran out of […]

Silhouettes crowd of hungry zombies and old windmill on hill against dark foggy toned sky. Silhouettes of scary zombies walking at night. Horror […]

Noel Sloboda

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Old Playfellow

When I answer the door, I am startled to find The Fire King smoldering before me. Decades […]

Anne Carly Abad

And It Was Bad

The garden was full of broken things— snakes that spoke in slithering speeches and thickets […]

I imagine being sheltered in place is one reason why nearly 300 poems have been submitted in the month of May 2020 for the 3rd […]