Evening of August 20, 2026

 

anything you say think can and will be used against you

~Barrie Levine

nautilus shell

shaped by the waves

my third ear


~Ron Scully

sand fleas

looking for some shade

to touch down

~Ron Scully

bangingmyheadagainstthewall a love story 

~Stephanie Zepherelli

causing a flap 

boxes opened 

upside down

~Stephanie Zepherelli

a map of everything 

she has survived 

grandma’s face

~Stephanie Zepherelli

electric city sounds

car alarm

cicadas

~Noah Berlatsky

moonlight glints from a lonely pagoda our secrets linger 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

how is it the piece of sky fits the hole in the jigsaw's stormy sea

~Ron Scully

his disjunctions had nothing to do with Gendai haiku

~Patrick Sweeney

Five Great Dialogues of Plato...

I'm still in my underwear

in the middle of the day

~Patrick Sweeney

he left a gaping exit wound

~dan smith

counting sheep the wicked never rest

~dan smith

shooting stars — the ballet of satellites

~Francoise Maurice

literary critic

a negative review for the book

he didn't finish

~John J. Dunphy

Afternoon of August 16, 2026

  

error 404 —

the bird’s nest

in the satellite dish

~Jacek Margolak

zoom call —

my cat’s tail

presenting

~Jacek Margolak

delivery notice —

the box

already empty

~Jacek Margolak

don't make me the punchline,

i'm not here to be your joke.

~linda m. crate 

i'm a moonflower

but the world only

remembers sunflowers.

~linda m. crate

don't miss me now

my ghost is meant

to haunt you.

~linda m. crate

 

waiting for sweetness candlelight reverberates mirrored surfaces

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

war plans another generation at risk

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

A moment is all we are flickering candle 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

 

decoys,

in shoes that don't fit

~Patrick Sweeney

once he thought he could figure out the whole shebang

and secretly, he still thought he might...

~Patrick Sweeney

A sky of dizzy stars everything colliding 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

he decided to spare them the martyrdom of his company

~Patrick Sweeney

still smoldering nests

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

the speech after the speech after another shooting

~Patrick Sweeney

all the world's 

a stage

recess

~Jennifer Gurney

to be

or not to be

hospice

~Jennifer Gurney

Afternoon of August 14, 2026

 

 

 

 

bare bodkin fair point

~Jerome Berglund

don't 

wanna know 

but need to 

~Jerome Berglund

 

in a fair and 

comely shape

peacock tarantula 

~Jerome Berglund

 

solar eclipse dark shadows on my wall 

~Bernadette O'Reilly 

mathematics

one way the universe

converses with me

~Tejendra Sherchan

got no time 

to learn about wolves in the forest 

picking us off

~Jerome Berglund

universal monsters

nothing more dangerous 

than the likable ones 

~Jerome Berglund

each car honk

a vote of support

for our signs

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

elegant is the dance of want,

sliced air, 

cupped hand with a steel bowl - 

the beggar tosses his coins 

pity leaps up, twirls, dives back to his bowl 

the dance of the overstretched hand synced 

with the music of hunger 

from belly to bowl

~Allen David Simon

sunflowers

as far as the eye can see

war dead

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

you and i…

could be an unknown face

but in same equation 

~Kamrun Nahar

 

 

vagabond phantoms the best at being unseen in moonlight 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

gnat not just one

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

turning the page don’t skip the messy chapters

~Sarah Mahina Calvello