Afternoon of May 7, 2023

 

~Brian Konopasek

 

their son

died 20 mass shootings ago

22 . . . 23

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Mindscape

 

From my weeping springs a river

that flows past mountains razed

 

into a valley where the sun

rises and sets on mourning                   

 

and the road not taken, which snakes

around the dark side of my mind

 

forming nightmares sharpened

by starlight and crystal tears

             

slicing holes through a memory,   

half-forgotten, filled with weeping.

~Lauren McBride

I procrastinate

by doing

the wrong work.

~Noah Berlatsky

By the inkwell

Plunge thy drop

      Listen

~gc gould