Afternoon of October 11, 2026

Front Yard Pair

~Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

 

total eclipse
neon fish
blink out

~Elliot Diamond

 

 

 

a cat on your chest

keeps the sleep in

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

glowing string lights

the night bird filling gaps

in our sentences

~Gareth Nurden

 

 

 

the aftermath

of gender violence 

crushed pomegranate

~Rupa Anand

 

 

another season passes

and still 

unfulfilled 

the promise

of a ceasefire

~Belinda Behne

 

 

Kitty would rather scratch me

than sit on me. Poetry

is for scratching wounds.

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

 

designer pugs
on urban streets—
dogs will be dogs

~Patricia Carragon

 

 

Eventually 

Three aged persons snore in a small cot in a slum.

Eventually the globe becomes smaller. 

~Partha Sarkar

 

 

 

 

learning spanish
I overhear
a stranger’s dream

~Soumya Mukherjee

 

 

 

 

strictly in the utilitarian sense exosphere

~Vishal Prabhu 

 

 

annoying change but not irrelevant shadowed circle moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

breath shortening the path to eternity

~John Hawkhead

 

 

 

 

neutron bomb not taking a side

~John Hawkhead

 

 

 

false positive pockets full of air bouncing peace treaties

~Biswajit Mishra

 

 

filigree moon night turns softer satin edge of what if

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

Russian Doll misses Trojan Horse 

~Elena Shakhnovsky

deep inside the forest the forest

~Rupa Anand

 

 

 

 

 

birds like ghosts things bound to get better sienna sunsets

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

 

Banana Leaf Empire

~Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Afternoon of October 10, 2026

 

 

You say he's on the lam from family and friends—poet, eh?

~Patrick Sweeney

Persistent cough; her winter kigo

~Patrick Sweeney

'Go easy with the mass extinctions; we're trying to have some laughs here'

~Patrick Sweeney

it’s time to never get up again


~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

 

broomstick to broomstick creeping ivy

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

  

 

Dharma transmission: the surprised looks on the faces

of the Halloween skeletons

~Patrick Sweeney

 

spiral of silence tornado-to-be

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

 

 

to celebrate sorrows autumn


~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

 

 

false positive pockets full of air bouncing peace treaties

~Biswajit Mishra

endless orbit   

golden mangos rot 

in zero-g

~Christina Chin

There was no earthly reason why he should be nervous about drinking water in zero-g


~Patrick Sweeney

a thorn-pricked finger 

I carry the scent 

 

of roses 

~Christina Chin

solar eclipse

the multicoloured moons

of the kite surfers

~Marie Derley

 

 

 

éclipse de soleil

les lunes multicolores

des kite surfeurs

~Marie Derley

 

unemployed

wizard school grads

scrolling, scrolling, scrolling

~Nicholas DeMarino

Crow's craw that did not quench my thirst,

save the day, save the date.

~Souvik Sarkar 

 

 

I approach

the end of the road

or does it approach me?

~John J. Dunphy

 

 

empty window

  the evening light 

waits for someone


~Manasa Reddy

Afternoon of October 8, 2026

  

that's not a fly in your soup sir its a shark fin sea of cortez

~Melissa Dennison

weaving in and out

car after car

a crow plays chicken

~Melissa Dennison

brave new world

unsettled

by how the fibre optic

winks

~Melissa Dennison

Every goodbye a small winter


~Manasa Reddy

checkered past continues to flap via midnight memes

~Marjorie Pezzoli

out of weapons carrying their hearts into war

~Stephanie Zepherelli

late arrival

tucking in the edges

of my opinions

~Stephanie Zepherelli

 

sharp glances

a ringlet escapes

from her hijab

~Stephanie Zepherelli

all doors

festooned with cobwebs

nowhere to escape

~Tejendra Sherchan

 

vocal chords

too small for us to hear

a lettuce snail

~Randy Brooks

 

tech bro that manufactured persona

 ~Ian Willey

 

 

 

 

panda diplomacy bamboozling the public

~Ian Willey

250 years of freedom fighting
 

~Ian Willey

soaring kite

why are there always

strings attached?


 ~Ian Willey

Doom of choice

The impending doom was in fact my own

as the scrolling between us was oh so sweet -

Ring, ring. Damn. Reality calling.

~Joanne Macias 

learning anything now is a plus cuneiform

~Ruth Holzer

 

liquidating

 

the trust

mother's spidery signature

~Ruth Holzer

 

 

 

 

mussels in wine sauce what were they thinking of

~Ruth Holzer

 

thinking hard

about thinking

about nothing

~Ruth Holzer

                                        

What the

most of my paintings

don't come right out

and say it and the others

suppress it pretty well 

only a couple poems 

come close to laying it

on the line with some

euphemisms but you 

 

get the idea

~dan smith

tundra....

not sure

what to make of it

~M. R. Pelletier

good omens

morning snow

and ravens

talking

~Tom Blessing

america today

             our dreams have

                        become a prison

~Tom Blessing