Afternoon of June 26, 2023

first date a picture of a fly on the wall

~Kerry J Heckman

inside my shell he holds it up to his ear

~Kerry J Heckman

stirring up trouble earthworm

~Kerry J Heckman

another mass shooting the moon split in half

~Kerry J Heckman

no longer

the breadwinner

making bread

~Mark Gilbert

Speed and the lolling—

the silence between the words,

uh, delirious.

~Mark Gilbert

Bauhaus exhibition

bleeps from a pile

of children’s coats

~Mark Gilbert

gated community

trapped

by her obsessions

~Nancy Brady

vintage wine

—the best year 

we stepped on 

~Sharon Ferrante

wishbones shattering the overripe fruit at the edge of a dream

~Kelly Moyer

pixie dust the secret life of a wallflower

~Kelly Moyer

night rain

what's lost is not always

meant to be found

~Kelly Moyer