We are happy now to say
the next issue's on its way(1)
so please marvel at the cover
and how mermippo does hover

(1) Callooh! Callay!

Give a cheer for all the poets
who gave this joke a go - it's
thanks to them we have an issue
for which you won't need a tissue (2)

(2) Well, you may well need a tissue
for the contents of this issue
but for not-the-usual reason -
just the poems over-pleasin'!

Poetry:

Mari Ness, Three Limericks (mariness)

Anatoly Belilovsky, The Were-Cactus (loldoc)

S. Brackett Robertson, Bathyscape (aliseadae)

Susannah Mandel, To The Family In The Sycamore Across The Street

Emily Jiang, Ballerina Hippo Mippo (emily_jiang)

Rachael K. Jones, Do Mermippos Dream of Electric Sharks?

Pear Nuallak, A Mermaid in The Mermaid

Alexandra Seidel, A Hippolimerick (alexa_seidel)

David Sklar, Before I Kill You (An Arch-Villainelle)

Jaymee Goh, Yes, I Am A Were (fantasyecho)

Kathy Figueroa, A Snippet of a Tale

Alexandra Erin, The Spoon-Drawer Gnome (alexandraerin)