Evening of December 5, 2022

 

spaceship window ……….

no more ups

no more downs

~Mark Gilbert

fingers touching keyboards we become A.I.

~Colette Kern

malaria sun the bite of betrayal

~Susan Burch

The stolen apple

oh so juicy.

One bite

he choked.

~Peter Blau

Faster, giant trash truck, faster

   squirrels are gaining on you! 

~Steve Van Allen

Endception

notes on the notes

on the notes

~Jerome Berglund

helpfully debunking

conspiracy theories

conspirators

~Jerome Berglund

I’m not a perfectionist

just because I use tweezers

to pick up confetti.

~Nolcha Fox

Ephemera

In quiet moments, he makes

tiny bubbles with his mouth.

It’s as though they might be

spirits yet to cross over

or innocents yet to be born.

I yearn to capture each one

within a dusty mason jar,

just as i might

a hastily-scribbled poem

or this post-apocalyptic firefly.

~Kelly Moyer

daddy long legs and I have nowhere to be


~Patrick Sweeney

avant garde

of entitled characters

finding the lost city

of creatures

half-human half-troll(ey)

buried

in the amazon jungle

of boxes and receipts

failing at

closing credits


~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

he fed the banister to the furnace for us

~Patrick Sweeey