Evening of June 19, 2023

unwinding from work

people tangled up

in dog leashes

~Stephanie Zepherelli

drained pond

frogs croak

to the rain god

~Suraj Nanu

Summer is

Fashionably late this year

Rain delay

~Jennifer Gurney

check inside you may already have died

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

getting to know him the length of a night

~Mona Bedi

zoo flute a mental plum

~J. D. Nelson

all four cookies the same misfortune

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

his words bite back rogue boomerang

~A.J. Anwar

opera pizza but a flower

~J. D. Nelson

she sits

with an alchemist

blending in

~Sharon Ferrante

the same prayer

from years ago

day moon

~Mona Bedi

fashion designing —

dad’s sigh

over my failed career

~Debarati Sen

The rain

Turned the path into

A new river

~Jennifer Gurney

June sun sprawled on the lawn

         the poem writes itself

~Herb Kitson

at the waterfall

I begin to sing

he throws

the guitar

over the cliff

~Sharon Ferrante

folk singer

her audience leaves when

the sign changes to 'walk'

~John J. Dunphy