Evening of October 18, 2026

  

 

 

 

dropped.stitch() # back to childhood (first.cast.on)

~Beverly A. Tift

 

wind(gusty)autumn.leaves—[dervish]—dance.ing the wind

~Beverly A. Tift

 

mountain(clouds) moves <yesterday>today<tomorrow> in/out(our) memories

~Beverly A. Tift

 

 

in a loop dead newspaper smell antique clocks 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

November 3 . . . 
ex(c)iting

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

looks like rain lets go have some birthday cake

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

Flash Flood

  .  .  .  .  .  

  .  .  .  .  .   

  !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  !!!!!!!!!!!!!   

  / / / / / / /

  / / / / / / /   

~Christina Chin

 

 

 

we the peephole

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

subway station
one paper cup
still warm

~Shivangi Sharma

 

  

El Niño
 

El Niño.

a new colony is to be set up on water.
 

~Partha Sarkar 

 

 

*Dream*

of an eye in an eye

in a pocket. Reach in

and where did it go?

~Noah Berlatsky

 

Midnight

midnight desk
a small lamp
holding the dark

~Young-jin Lee

 

 

footprints of years how we cling to ritual 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

We are all one; everything
Except for snowflakes.
(Maxims have limitations.) 

~Frank Conahan

 

 

you read books to find

more books to read

the goal is to never catch up

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

 

 

This is not just a word game.
Are hands beings?
What is our defining boundary?

~Frank Conahan  

  

what I hate 

about your poem

is the best part

~Bridget Chebo Enggasser

 

 

 

 

Open now for submissions: Fugu Soup (Issue 2)

https://fugusoupjournal.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html

Open now for submissions: smols poetry journal
https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/ 

Afternoon of October 15, 2026

 

 

doom scrolling
my fingers
unstoppable

~Soumya Mukherjee

 

 

star wars
somewhere out there
peace talks

~Joanna Ashwell

 

 

coffee break conversing with themselves online

~Joanna Ashwell

triple bolting my door until birds start singing again

~Maya Daneva

 

 

empty chair
the ceiling fan hums
in slow circles

~Manasa Reddy

 

 

The kind of loneliness that doesn't need a one-way ticket to Patagonia

~Patrick Sweeney

We thought every kid at that school could read,

and that nobody got ringworm

~Patrick Sweeney

Rain at dawn
awakens him.
Full bladder

~Jeffrey Taylor

That rainy morning voice of the woman who's always calling for her dog 

~Patrick Sweeney

his drunken room spin me around dizzy moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

soft ramblings between the madness of hours wild moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

in the crosshairs moments take too long sunset unfolding  

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

 

 

 

Level beams of the sun—my head in the mouth of the blue shark of haiku

~Patrick Sweeney

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