From Dane Lyn's chapbook, bubblegum black, available from Bottlecap Press!

From Veronica Vervet's chapbook, Rumination, available from Bottlecap Press!

Poem for Earth Day. From Matthew Olzmann's book, Constellation Route. (Alice James Books, 2022)

Voting as Fire Extinguishter (poem by Kyle Tran Myhre)

When the haunted house catches fire:

a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones,

and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels

that overwhelming dread, the evil

that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember:

there are children inside.