Morning of October 4, 2023


 promises broken roads named for presidents

~John Pappas



what's left of me after right and wrong

~Deborah Karl-Brandt



utility of scarecrow as kigo

~Patrick Sweeney



the right side of my brain a rainy sycamore

~Patrick Sweeney



back home the memory of wind

~Mona Bedi



                                up

rollercoaster 

                                            and down

                                                                     these 

                                                                                       moods

~Stephanie Zepherelli



family graveyard

parts of me

already buried

~Mona Bedi



the peeling label

on the old beer bottle

death poem

~John Pappas



i can’t swim

don’t place me in water,

scatter me…no

place me under a tree

so I may hear birdsong

~Wanda Amos



death poem the empty aquarium’s hum

~John Pappas



getting through another day without satori

~Patrick Sweeney



it's not only me the psychiatrist’s visit

~Mona Bedi



clock-watchers in windowless rooms

~Patrick Sweeney



buffalo nickels    I'm stuck between numismatics on a train

~Patrick Sweeney



where brambles wind

spindles of brier and barb

our
intertwined tongues

~John Hawkhead



summer heat

a fan cools

what's left of me

~Deborah Karl-Brandt



the loquacious defendant

gags upon receiving

a gag order

~John J. Dunphy

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