Afternoon of May 16, 2026

 

Election after election 

Election after election.

Will the shadows in a queue reach their destination? 

~Patha Sarkar

Three witches
 

Three witches of Time-

Past, Present and future.

~Partha Sarkar

Thought from 13th March 2023, otherwise untitled

To some extent I think it's true that we walk the path we walk one foot after the other and the

next foot starts moving before we've finished telling it not to. To some extent, I think it's true.

~Lewis Leverett

anxiety—

learning to live with

the stranger in me

~Mona Bedi

Flowers 

a dash of colour

moss hides the words

~Graeme Needham

hanging by a single hook

the widower's

address sign

~Patrick Sweeney

he didn't need any mnemonic induction

to trip off to other realms

~Patrick Sweeney

accepting the 'will of heaven'

doesn't mean you can't change

the position of the fan

~Patrick Sweeney

empty diner

the scent of grease humming

with a ceiling fan

~Melissa Dennison

 

 

white splashes

in the garden...

a pigeon's abstract art

~Melissa Dennison

A quandary 

Of thems and selves and sips and numbers rounding up their lives, measured into precise

compartments of knickknacks and tea things.

~John Vlachos

doomed friendship 

you were minimalistic,

i am avant-garde;

perhaps the friendship

was doomed from the

beginning. 

~linda m. crate

New moon

Unfinished 

But complete 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Evening of May 14, 2026

 

situational awareness 

hazardous materials license

~Jerome Berglund

ostrich festival 

making the impossible 

possible 

~Jerome Berglund

silent retreat soup du jour

~Jerome Berglund

magic castle 

the prestige is a trick 

of the copperfields

~Jerome Berglund

mass vacatur

everything this supreme court 

has wrought 

~Jerome Berglund

Both of us     

You are right. 

I am also equally right 

and thus both of us are equally wrong or right. 

~Partha Sarkar

Obscure faces

Haunt me obscure faces.

I take refuge in the silhouette.
 

~Partha Sarkar

this is a perfect day

to never leave the house

again

~Noah Berlatsky

knowing

all the sizes of doors

a beggar

~Tejendra Sherchan

Don't disturb

Don't disturb anyone by telling the truth.
 

~Partha Sarkar

separate but separate

segrenation of black and state

~Nicholas De Marino

vote with your Roku tithe

churcharation of mouse and state

~Nicholas De Marino

in our outer

I need some

     space

~Nicholas De Marino

X-Files

I want to believe.

XL-Files

I want to believe it fits.

XXX Files

Also, it's sexy.

EX-Files

I want to believe it's her, not me.

EP-Files

I just want to keep my head down and go back to making a laughable minimum wage while corporations make more money than they've ever made in the history of money and just wait for the Orange Man behind the Red, White, & Blue Curtain to be replaced by the next

~Nicholas De Marino

Block

 

Flat roofed        Brick box        Three

Windows high        Twelve wide

Six doors        Blue        Cloudless sky

BBQ haze        Dandelion and burdock

Breeze        No people        Just nets

Sheets and blinds        Obscure

One flashing light        Twice for help?

~Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki

Afternoon of May 12, 2026

 

Welcome, Friend

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

One 

The very one who self becomes, a self of always, a that, a part of some moment in a

maybe….walks with his shadow holding hands.

~john vlachos

The Little Agony

The little agony appeals, a screaming flower afraid in the wind, like tiny moments holding hands

to stay alive….bruised cheeks pulling up a smile that bleeds.

~john vlachos

statue

wearing iron-framed glasses

with no glasses

~Tejendra Sherchan 

gas-lit tongues

lashing out

dark night

~Kavita Ratna

who goes on top 

settling it

in our grave

~John Hawkhead

war updates

numberless stars

born today

~Bipasha Majumder (De)

I must stop asking mathematicians

about the integer zero

~Patrick Sweeney

under authoritarian rule

he goes right on C-spiking the free radicals

~Patrick Sweeney

putting things inside other things

is one way to get through the day

~Patrick Sweeney

passing the second bookmark in my used copy of Catch-22

~Patrick Sweeney

the clipped nails of the fatalistic traveler

~Patrick Sweeney

tomato plant

tied to its stake by

mom's rosary

~John J. Dunphy

“no kings” rallies

250 years

after we first said it

~Douglas J. Lanzo

I've drunk the wine 

and the owl is quiet 

—empty page 

~Sharon Ferrante 

another day

not one haiku 

in my pond 

~Sharon Ferrante 

low on sage…

fifty monsters 

in the cabinet 

~Sharon Ferrante 

never say never mind

~Barrie Levine