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.

~jon 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.

~jon 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



Afternoon of May 9. 2026

 


The Love Buggy

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer


Google


the kitchen

of the Internet,


why did I come

here again?

~Keith Snow




in the blink of an eye

borrowing billions

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




peace march

no need for tear gas

to cry


marche pour la paix

pas besoin de gaz lacrymogènes

pour pleurer

~Marie Derley




a headless doll

all the faces of war

~Arvinder Kaur




neighbour’s tree

what forbidden apples look like 

~Arvinder Kaur




there till the poem lasts dandelion clock

~Arvinder Kaur




fully loaded

dandelion clock

flight check

~Randy Brooks


 


country-fried steak

two shakes of jalapeño juice

like grandpa

~Randy Brooks

 



the way his bandana

calls more attention

to his toothless smile

~Robert Epstein




new buds

the balder I get

the longer my beard

~Robert Epstein




just retired

filling her appt. book

with smiley faces

~Robert Epstein




when we switch

into a two-for-one

singularity

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




only the perfect 

cookies for my one true love 

singularity 

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




the skull-shaped urn

might have been a mistake

your eyes follow me

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




The Last Robot 


The sun grew large and red

Earth now its closest satellite

humanity long extinct 

the last robot surrendered 

to the small eaters 

last as they had been first 

ten billion years before 

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




daybreak —

an outer space star

sets earth rock ablaze

~Sarah Mirabile-Blacker



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