By Erik Kennedy

Trump Haiku: 5

Out of the Box

Poem: Sara Adams

Poem: Chris Tse

/ Chris Tse / Poetry
'Maybe you'll start to make an effort when you separate / necessity from decency.'

Trump Haiku: 4

/ Lance Newman / Poetry
'They want to cut you apart. These are tough people. I've dealt with them all my life.'

Poem: Mark Fiddes

/ Mark Fiddes / Poetry
The galactic ashtray intercepts a last fag as the philosopher quips . . .

Poem: Lucy Tiven

Trump Haiku: 3

/ Lance Newman / Poetry
I never said that. I never said that. Somebody's really doing some bad fact-checking.

Poem: Trista Edwards

Trump Haiku: 2

Poem: Rebecca Beauchamp

Trump Haiku: 1

Poem: Joshua Johnston and Colin Jewell

Poems: Thomas Walton

Poem: Stephanie Bryant Anderson

/ Stephanie Bryant Anderson / Poetry
'You say I have absorbed / energy from wild animals.'

Stuff Happens

Poem: Matthew Smart

/ Matthew Smart / Poetry
'Light a fire, and something burns. / I suggest that thing, over there.'

Poem: Helen McClory

Poem: Hawa Allan

/ Hawa Allan / Poetry
'I'll write you out / like washwomen / with thick wrists / wring out dirty water.'

Poems: Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva

Poems: Glen Armstrong

/ Glen Armstrong / Poetry
'I understood that I needed to go about my business as if I, too, had already lost everything.'

Poems: Laura Madeline Wiseman

/ Laura Madeline Wiseman / Poetry
'Maybe all of us bare it and they self-preserve and hide.'

Poems: Stacey Teague

Poems: Chuck Young

/ Chuck Young / Poetry
'the only ghosts that are scary are the ones that were ourselves.'

Poems: Edward Kulemin

Poems: S Cearley

Poems: Meghan Harrison