Morning of August 25, 2026

 

The Last Poet at Walmart


I found God in aisle nine

comparing prices on canned beans.

He looked older than scripture.

I asked if everything was okay.

He shrugged.

Inflation, apparently,

has reached Heaven.

~Joshua Walker


 

 

Extinction Event

 

The dinosaurs had an asteroid.

Rome had barbarians.

Atlantis had the sea.

We have passwords

requiring one capital letter,

one number,

and one symbol

we will never remember.

~Joshua Walker




THOUGHTS

 

Mostly

1 ignore them

but sometimes

they get me

thinking.


~John Grey  

 



A MAN IN MY SITUATION

 

I

thought

of

everything

 

and

that's

not

all

~John Grey  




What Name

will she whisper

with her last breath

odds are it 

won't be 

yours

~dan smith




A  Neo-dada Love Poem Manifesto


listen to the Druids

not the drudges

watch the sunrise 

at Stonehenge

see it set 

on psycho empire

then throw paint 

at the moon

~dan smith




scattering

support for a brave people

sunflower seeds

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky




fire ants

outraged

at the footprint

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky




From shadow to shadow   


From shadow to shadow, a fairytale is a UFO.

~Partha Sarkar




another day eclipsed spiraling into the 

unknown 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello



 

mad hatter midsummer frightened bird of hope 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




elevator—

thirteenth floor

no breath

~Subhash Roy Choudhury




I would like to go outside

but I am writing this poem.

~Noah Berlatsky



 

Pure Screech


On television

he screams

I’m going

to murder

the precedent!

over and over.

~Chad Parenteau



 

The Apocalypse Was Delayed


Four horsemen

stood outside my window.

Death checked his phone.


Apparently

the end of the world

has been rescheduled

due to staffing shortages.

~Joshua Walker


 

 

Prayer


Dear God,

I know you’re busy

with wars, famine,

and the universe,


but the dog

has something in his mouth

and won’t tell me what.

Amen

~Joshua Walker

 

  

Evening of August 23, 2026

   

There’s Nothing I Don’t Know



Because


I can’t know

What I don’t

Till I already do

~J Maurer




fresh new morning orange blossoms can’t disguise the truth 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




everyone has dirty laundry the broken streetlight flickers 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




we the people cyclospora

~Roberta Beach Jacobson





misbehaving stray 

loiterers at my teashop

perhaps the reincarnation 

of my late daughter 

~Tejendra Sherchan 




Some News Is No News



Chinese robot beats

Usain Bolt’s world sprint record…

so does my old car

~James Penha




Before I go out,

check the news.

Active shooter

at the mall?


~Jeffrey L. Taylor

 

 

 



righteous war

giving Christian names

to rape and murder


~John Hawkhead

 


 

no resolutions

starting the new year

with the same war

~John Hawkhead




Without a Thought

 

The thinker and the thoughts they think

both inhabit the same platonic form

 

In fact, the thinker is one of the thoughts they think

Same as the sculptor is the sculpture they sculpt

Same as the fish is the water it swims in

Same as the bird is the air it flies through

 

~J Maurer

 

 

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