Morning of June 27, 2023

Truth is a bird smashing into a window.

~Wolfgang Wright

Winged wonder

grabbing earrings,

fluttering up

to sit on wire,

daring me to

climb to heights

and use my cutters.

I refuse, I choose

to leave home

hoopless.

~Nolcha Fox

She giraffes her head

above the hedge,

listening to her neighbors.

They look her way,

she giraffes her neck,

as if she’s eating leaves.

~Nolcha Fox

tightrope walker

meets past and future

in the middle

~Stephanie Zepherelli

Death be not proud.

Death be not.

Death be.

Death.

~Noah Berlatsky

Dead

turtle in road

we stopped - she ran out

Too late, shell cracked

it was dead - moved to roadside

No rescue this time

just a gentle word - a quiet end

~Julie A Dickson

dough kneading

fold after fold

the layers of my thought

~Françoise Maurice

Gambling

I bet on myself

And I lost me

 

I bet on my job

And I lost it

 

I bet on my girl

And I lost her

 

So I bet on the world

And all was lost

~Wolfgang Wright

The Rice Effect

What makes you think i am human?

the nap post lunch when i was a child:

a portal to different versions of me—

I devoured them all, so here I am a woman

young and fit by imagination running wild

on a bowl of rice to set the kraken free.

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

Extinction

Maybe the dodos were just tired of it all.

~Wolfgang Wright