Afternoon of August 10, 2022

first fruits offering—

the vault of seeds in Norway

guarded by giants

~J. D. Nelson

59 Fleas and a Pillbug

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~petro c.k.

after

the disaster

and before

the next manifesto

their thoughts are with us

~Kashi Reisu

earthworm

eating

the Earth

bit

by bit

~Keith Evetts

dip the eternal dawn 

in a quiet cup of sea

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

smaller than a quark—

I’m nowhere & everywhere

startled by voices

~J. D. Nelson

watching 

my favourite cartoon

the news

~Daipayan Nair

falling petals apart from the daily news

~Keith Evetts

crash open the sky

a waterfall of words 

whispers in the wind

~Eavonka Ettinger 

fleas

the psychiatrist

driven mad

~Kashi Reisu

a couple

thoughtful reviews

fired into the ether

inhale the stars

and walk away

~Jerome William Berglund

~Uchechukwu Onyedikam

beet poet pickled

~Roberta Beach Jacobson