FLOWER NOTHINGED

to a new haven
started station set

the table
decision matrix

lady with sword for a violin
lady with armor for an arm

*

calmdown tringle
hissing cassingle

ablation song for the new
new normal

incredible

*

minidisc!
what an amazing format

electrons cached us
when we were arcing down a second

street shot fast
the air

subtle as black sesame

minute togethers
grip me here

*

please in the
edged circle

use ube
ruby

pandan candle
bodywork seeds

release

*

hard by the heldest
drug of such

proximal

animal relation print
wall soup

quiet range

*

to parse the noodle
cross piquant slake

vinegar stoke at
flip boy park

*

see sloppy dogs
stay dogs forever

goners long
in the creeping tether

get deep grave in hot
gravy weather

Wet Cake Freaks United

*

mid-drifted

love I love

your outfit
high compliment coming

flamelicked
from her

*

phone check now in momentary rain
sheltering by the little yellow melons

how we attempt
to justify here

*

language’s great
such great distraction

original slime crusts
open every crystal

noise gate
side-chained

to regret either way

*

the walk thru the town

feeling mid

feeling filmed

becoming orchestral

and a villain

from pain

*

it’s easier to say than not

*

an option obliterates itself

at the foot of another option

an obliterate options itself

in the hand of another obliterate

don stab vest
look alive

*

order placed

*

cutlight exit
morning with tonal cookie

half a hallway round
wound with newest wound

*

low I’ve gone
into a circuit

reappeared as something
unknowable to myself

forget the black and white
leave something sweet behind

Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and educator. He is the author of the chapbook cycle hum (Sistrum Books, 2025), the poetry collection As If And (New Mundo, 2026), and his work has appeared in APARTMENT, Annulet, Oversound, mercury firs, Poetry Northwest, American Book Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Cleveland State and the Cleveland Institute of Art, and serves as managing editor of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and an editor-at-large at the Cleveland Review of Books. He also runs a small press called Community Mausoleum and a journal called Coma.