Morning of September 17, 2023


all five faculties

what happens when you

don’t write things down

~Mark Gilbert



finding a soft spot in the icehouse of protracted pain

~Patrick Sweeney



tone in which the merchant said: we're not open

~Patrick Sweeney



the inner voyages of the bedridden sailor

~Patrick Sweeney



walking

between raindrops

white space

~Mark Gilbert



fire does not give rise to perspective

the birds don’t sing

autumn does not come

autumn from now on without legs without god without man

~Mykyta Ryzhykh


(Originally published in BarBar)



I would know Tom Wait’s

voice anywhere ...

all gravel and grit

~Jennifer Gurney



the universe is snow-winter

one day we will fall into the grave

slowly like snowflakes

~Mykyta Ryzhykh



clutter of neurons

thoughts

cling to the branches

~Mark Gilbert



after a trip to

the joke shop near Grandma’s house –

itching powder strikes

~Jennifer Gurney



a million fragments

each one labelled

with a memory

~Mark Gilbert



evidence of rickets deep in the bone texts of the Shang

~Patrick Sweeney



Metzenbaum scissors for the cut of his jib

~Patrick Sweeney



sandy beach scattered clouds a fake puppy runs toward the camera in slow motion

~Mark Gilbert

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