Evening of August 13, 2022

ghost town

the wind has

its own voice

~Vandana Parashar



tax returns not catching tarpon

~Keith Evetts



reptile house

boa constrictor

sleeping off lunch

 ~Mark Gilbert



Deadly
Desert comes with its native charms

cacti, ferns, dunes, vipers and moons

speak to the nomads

in old tongues

–inside, it is the Inland taipan for the soul!

~Sunil Sharma



deodorant

silence

deodorant

silence

~Mark Gilbert



castaways not washing armpits

~Keith Evetts



For Love Or (Rarely) Money
When rags that don’t pay,

Demur ‘steada publish house

Hold name writers like

Billy Collins, Charles Simic,

Lydia Davis – makes my day!

~Gerard Sarmat



fire apple an eagle eats my uterus

~Pippa Phillips



from a nightmare

I wake up

in someone else’s body

~Vandana Parashar



irrigation in the courts::litigation in the fields

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

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