Afternoon of October 18, 2023

his anger the stranger I married

~Mona Bedi



zombie Queen still has the wave

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

 



Alexa the parents they no longer need

~Mona Bedi



old boulder this shiftless existence

~John Hawkhead



becoming the night a blackbird’s song

~Mona Bedi



hello

          hello

                     hello

the empty echo

across our universe

~Eavonka Ettinger



motion sensor

blinking lights awaken

the android

~Eavonka Ettinger



Insomnia.

I get so much done.

Until I don’t.

~Noah Berlatsky



bedtime

I point the spider

toward the basement

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



Space Problem


Every century or so

he occupies a new body;

under the floorboards,

the old ones are piling up.

He hates to throw them out,

the recycling center won't take them,

burning's illegal inside city limits,

and they're already 5 deep

in the family plot out back.

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel



microplastics

invading the bloodstream

how it started

~Eavonka Ettinger



distant bombing

the tangerine sunset

goes up in smoke

~Mona Bedi



All Souls' Day

I place flowers on

a forgotten grave

~John J. Dunphy



utamakura

struggling for words

in the graveyard

~John Hawkhead



a cacophony of caws

flock of starlings

squawk their daily prayers

~Steve Van Allen



Parameters


She curtsied him away,

when he danced

too near her.

~Keith Snow

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