Morning of April 10, 2026

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temple bells chime

a monkey finds

lice in its ear

~Soumya Mukherjee

turning into a scarecrow wet owl

~Tejendra Sherchan

Vanilla ice coffee

You told me to enjoy birds

Simple, sweet

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

the gentle bleed

of daily news

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

The spectre of a vet looms large and threatens

The existence of the wily indestructible flea

Oh I know my time is up I just want blood me

Vampires in films get much more screen time

But the Ctenocephalides felis hogs the Front Line

~Olinda Ninolakis

Lifeboat:

my fragile suppositions

tossed overboard

~Patrick Sweeney

eight-clawed sparrows on the iodine wire

~Patrick Sweeney

it'll take more than borax to kill the eggs of these fleas

~Patrick Sweeney

yes, I walked into telephone poles and stop signs as a kid...

early indications of something or other

~Patrick Sweeney

stepping on and stretching up

a wad of parking-lot gum, again

the heat

~Patrick Sweeney

astronauts escaping Earth's atmosphere

on a broken toilet

~Patrick Sweeney

chalked palms

a climbing rope reaches

the highest rafter

~Randy Brooks

 

out loud noun

their silent modifier

such a quiet verb

~Randy Brooks

 

 

dorm room poster

hippies hold hands

into the woods

~Randy Brooks

Charlotte

tethered by friendship to the end

Wilbur

~Jennifer Gurney

one way 

universe converses with me

through dreams

~Tejendra Sherchan

Evening of April 7, 2026

one dandelion
and no breeze
a possible future

~Marie C Lecrivain

the last black rhino

is gone

a slower

sunrise

today

~Marie C Lecrivain

up there

the grimacing chimera

of the church

là-haut

la chimère grimaçante

de l’église

~Marie Derley

limescale the thought of you e r o d i n g 

~Katherine E Winnick

The Transit of

Venus — a slowed-

 

down version of

Waiting for Godot.

~Mark Young

no more waiting for Godot

~Belinda Behne

The Age of Misrule every day is April Fools

~dan smith

that butterfly, that now

~dan smith

zero gravity

the hourglass sand

stops flowing

~John J. Dunphy

AARP asked 

why I cancelled auto pay

for my late aunt’s bill

~James Penha 

Lurching from one disaster 

to another, all

of his own making.
 

~Jeffrey Taylor

my father's dog tags

peace 

is a utopia

~M. R. Pelletier 

Old women selling eggs

The quiet wisdom

In everyday life

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Insomnia

I cannot dream

so I write poetry

~Noah Berlatsky

surgery scar . . . 

the tideline's cursive

changing alphabets

~Nicholas Klacsanzky

milestones
the fabled end

of a rainbow

~Joanna Ashwell

surveying my teashop

the swallows won't return

to build their nests

~Tejendra Sherchan 

(fr)agile moon
(b)light

on my feet

~Joshua St. Claire

daffodils

Cadbury eggs

first signs of spring

~Jennifer Gurney

Finally we came to know    

Finally we came to know that 

we are naked.

Thank you, Mr. President.

~Partha Sarkar 

under lamplight

not confessing to anything

the unmoving fly

~Albert Schlaht

trick candles
on my birthday cake

I wasn’t born yesterday

~Herb Tate

Afternoon of April 3, 2026

 

Five Fleas Swag

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expanding

of the universe

our ego

~Tejendra Sherchan

quid pro trophy

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

toxic rain

their propaganda

more convincing than our own

 

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

patients

all returning home

fairy dust

 

~Richard Bailly

free

apocalyptic

at last

~Richard Bailly

Standing Blurry

Standing in the rain

blurry, upside down

an umbrella attempts

control in drizzling

reflection

of an impressionist’s

imagination.

~Diane Webster

Passing Rule

Double yellow line

a man runs down

the center of the highway

unable to cross the rule

of no passing zone.

~Diane Webster

Up Down

I am a reflection

always upside down

and backwards,

and when my mirror

dries up,

I disappear

leaving the original

upwards and upside.

~Diane Webster

a delicate subject

coming out to grandmother

butterfly

~Anna N. Jennings

grandma's village

roasted goose

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

he was tired of keeping

his hosannas to himself

~Patrick Sweeney

liar, liar, world on fire

~Patrick Sweeney

a war movie we always win

~Patrick Sweeney

war is looking for a window

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

the omnipresent fog of war

~Ian Willey

bombs away out of this mess

~Ian Willey

late frost

a tree marked

for death


~Ian Willey

Sci-Fi Night Invite

 

come for the beasts

stay for the science

~S. T. Eleu