Afternoon of June 14, 2026

 

 

Kitchen Wink

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




homeless shelter

a round of applause for

the class valedictorian 

~John J. Dunphy 



 

from unhoused

to housed

in an ICE detention center

~John J. Dunphy



 

Lenin

if you put him in 

a cowboy hat 

~Jerome Berglund




local law enforcement 

investigating 

themselves 

~Jerome Berglund



 

meddlesome 

good representation 

despite,

never ever 

because of

~Jerome Berglund




They say 

only the meek

surrender;

but, have you

ever heard

the roar

of a waterfall?

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




in lieu of ellipses and em-dashes a squiggly line 

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




dew-warped 

the three-liner

left out overnight

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




white worm . . . 

well damn me 

for an amateur 

been too focused 

on secular conspiring

~Jerome Berglund




changing the system 

or endorsing it 

appendicitis 

~Jerome Berglund




thoughts and prayers

they would have us 

second guess them

~Jerome Berglund



 

under the nails —

a line

that won’t print


~Jacek Margolak

 



broken press —

a fingerprint

in the margin


~Jacek Margolak

 

 

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Afternoon of June 12, 2026

 


bus stop

rain chooses

one shoulder


~Elliot Diamond




unsubscribe and they send one more


~David Liu




single-cell organism // all of us


~Nicholas De Marino



 

quiet pond, a frog breaks the moon.

~Manasa Reddy Chichili



 

nowhere to go orphan moon


~Mona Bedi




love is a room with plastic flowers

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




the revolution will not be televised

but it will be filmed and uploaded

to Facebook

~Jennifer Gurney

 


Morning of June 8, 2026

  

Daredevil

#92

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




objects

in the bathroom mirror

much closer

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel



 

Texas summer 

lizard people take off 

their masks 

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




belligerent planet—

a praying mantis devours

the lizard

~Tejendra Sherchan




razor’s edge

a stunning view 

of the afterlife

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




crisp crumbs

her midnight quest

for meaning

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




warfare

a repair ticket 

on the Doomsday Clock

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




shadows in the valley the phenomenology of grief


~John Pappas




as yellow as never the bone ache of silence

~John Pappas




party games

the swish and sway

of a housefly

~Joanna Ashwell




zodiac club

locking horns

with a ram

~Joanna Ashwell




their prayers

evaporate in the air

Greek mountain

~Marie Derley




old dock

she whispers 

in the waves

~Tucker Poikonen