Afternoon of November 29, 2025

 

Migrant2

~Michael Lee Johnson

what we talk about

when we talk about

what we talk about

~Nicholas De Marino

junk mail

let's play

postman

~Yasir Farooq

house sparrow

through the one-way window

unreturned love

~Yasir Farooq

        baking bread

        yesterday’s news

        lights the fire

        ~Belinda Behne

first

Thanksgiving without you

empty chair

~Jennifer Gurney

without you

all the Vermillion Queens

will go astray

~Tejendra Sherchan

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~Nicholas De Marino

they should give us

a mute button for all the hurtful things

people say

~Jennifer Gurney

script kiddies pad thai


~Jerome Berglund

source music

cutting a switch

~Jerome Berglund

we call

them myths

plausible deniability

~Jerome Berglund

Whitepilled

Male

lone gunman

epidemic.

~Chad Parenteau

I have lost myself in Paris

Shed my English skin

Like a chameleon

Trying to fit in

Of course it is a waste of time

Parisians are fierce and not blind

Every little thing she does

Spells foreign... and yet

Paris has been kind to me

As kind as it gets

~Olinda Ninolakis

Don't say

Don't say 'nothing is impossible'.

I have done nothing in my whole life.

~Partha Sarkar

no after-dinner cleanup

our first Thanksgiving at

a soup kitchen

~John J. Dunphy

no joke

like the

present

~Helen Buckingham

Intervention


~Nicholas De Marino

 

 

Morning of November 27, 2025

 

Red vs Green

~dan smith

starless night—

inflation becomes

sky-high

~Martina Matijević

my state importing

all the worldly goods

except jobs

~Tejendra Sherchan

an urge to win

over my dark side

waxing moon

~Tejendra Sherchan

a thin slice

of pumpkin pie

crescent moon

~Elliot Diamond

winter night shivering crescent moon

~Tejendra Sherchan

guidance counselor either Simon or Garfunkel

~petro c. k.

masked symptoms hardening mass

deportation

~petro c. k.

now it's personal leopards at the door

~petro c. k.

meditation

listening to music

far and near

~Bipasha Majumder (De)

off to sleep

valerian tea

to the twilight zone

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

they waited while he made goofy faces...

the concave and convex sides

of the spoon

~Patrick Sweeney

one-man steps barefoot on a Lego

another joins the First Crusade

~Patrick Sweeney

three camels

in elevator

hump to hump

~Elliot Diamond

Insomnia

I don’t think that sheep

counts.

~Noah Berlatsky

fallen branches scars of a previous lifetime

~Patricia Hawkhead

sunset sketching in my shadows

~Patricia Hawkhead

seagulls

an invasive species

in my poems

~Oliver Kleyer

 

 

 

Afternoon of November 26, 2025

 

not so foggy

since Jack the Ripper died

on London cobbles

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

matted leaves

i slip under

the radar

~Barrie Levine

nothing more to add to my bucket list fall dusk

~Mona Bedi

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   E           E
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~Allen David Simon

Circuit Fever


I plugged you in;

your ghost flickers

in the half-lit corners of my mind


~David Anson Lee

Cosmic Flea


something bites:

a star collapses

into my rib cage

~David Anson Lee

After the Quiet


the post-apocalypse

tastes like lukewarm coffee

and yesterday’s regret

~David Anson Lee

losing the battle

as life dissolves

line in the sky

~Jennifer Gurney

miles of mansplaining

by all means

don’t apologize

~Laurinda Lind

3 A.M. dog howls

beneath the comet

country music

~Morgan Ellington

The bloody knife in the sink.

Your finger,

shorter than before.

~Shawn Scott Smith

A Protest

I boycotted all of capitalism

and then starved and became homeless—

having greatly underestimated it.

~Shreya Datta

NO FUTURE

I get it.

Tomorrow

never comes.

So that means

the day after tomorrow

is also shot.

~John Grey

GOOD NEWS

Because of

a technical glitch,

the bad news

has been delayed.

 

In the interim,

there is no news.

~John Grey

night sky

the pattern of birds

long gone

~Nisha Raviprasad