Afternoon of May 18, 2026

office day 

leaving myself

on mute

~thomas david

spores of the earth

pulsing in starbursts

—prayer path

~Goran Gatalica

cosmography—

I am lost

among the words

~Goran Gatalica

war memories—

hail pinging off

the windshield

~Goran Gatalica

A sleeping angle of torturous stories and reprimands, the last of cares and worries stored in the I

Cloud.

~John Vlachos

Scripted 

To be of responding kisses, throwing all that you know of life in an obsequious transition, a terse

reminder of the scripted conversations that walk with a limp.

~John Vlachos

slow blinking

with my cat

we say I love you

~Jennifer Gurney

a quiet voice

this patch of sun

the cat likes

~Anne Fox

midnight moon

my demons and I

greet the day

~Anne Fox

Variations in exactness 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

temple offering —

those eyes lock into mine

before its head is chopped

~Rupa Anand

my wife tells me I'm exhibiting

pre-industrial sleep patterns

~Patrick Sweeney

rainy dawn

the petro-chemical scent

of home

~Patrick Sweeney 

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