Afternoon of March 12, 2023

the ruined embouchure of the dented tea kettle

~Patrick Sweeney

no contact drop off    in a lonely world

~Patrick Sweeney

daughter points to where Mount Fuji should be

~Patrick Sweeney

my rescue opera    two syllables

~Patrick Sweeney

 years spent    in the biographical subtext of fictional selves

~Patrick Sweeney

burning leaves

I wonder about

my soul

~John Pappas

on his boots

another county’s mud

spring offensive

~John Pappas

 

old polaroids a trip through thensylvania 

~John Pappas

night rain whispering all my faults

~John Pappas

 

late night thoughts

the hum

of the microwave

~John Pappas

from the pages

of a play

starlings

~John Pappas

 

sunflowers a correlation between brown rice and madness

~Kelly Moyer

despair accountable only to the toad

~Kelly Moyer

 

 

uncommon poetics buried with the bubble tea

~Kelly Moyer

breadcrumbs a far cry from the fairy tale

~Kelly Moyer