when she's around you half expect a yellow canary to fly into the room
~Patrick Sweeney
mermaid
they called me mermaid
because i answered
the call of the sea,
but they never heard her;
i guess that's why
they don't understand
my depths.
~linda m. crate
ultrasound
my inner world
on the display screen
~Arvinder Kaur
coping with cancer —
the nail polish brighter
than last time
~Rupa Anand
too much
i was always told i
was too much by
people who i thought
could be more,
if you should ask me
the only thing there's too much
of is: bombs, genocides, wars,
cruelty, malice, indifference, and greed.
~linda m. crate
until they crawl in next to you the sorrows of the world
~Patrick Sweeney
ravages of war
the straight face
of AI anchor
~Arvinder Kaur
autumn
sky —
this desire to return
to the womb
~Debarati
Sen
no money in poetry
no poetry in money
this is not a poem
nor money neither
~Noah Berlatsky
dark river
an oar scoops dead fish
in its spoon
~Rupa Anand
goddess
you thought yourself
a god who could
mold me into your image,
you were surprised
to find i was a goddess
who could sculpt myself
into whatever image that suited me.
~linda m. crate
dowry
demands —
dad curses the day
I was born
~Debarati Sen
Smile
Body
language continues our argument.
Uber guy says, “You ladies
should smile more,
pretty girls like you.”
“What
about the uglies─ should they smile, too?”
My sister sits
up perpendicular, bares her teeth and growls.
The driver
crashes into a STOP sign, slurring the word “Stop”
as if it
too is skidding.
~Cheryl Snell
she doesn't want me to throw away the small pieces of soap
~Patrick Sweeney
moon
shadow cognitive dissonance
~Jennifer
Gurney
the inner jewelry of old telephone wires
~Patrick Sweeney
on the other side of sadness anger
~Jennifer Gurney
kissing the piggy that had roast beef
~Patrick Sweeney
I
remind the moon
and all to wear a mask—
covid is waxing
~James Penha
solar noon
the donkey claims the win
for himself
~Françoise Maurice
stillness
in
the room
even silence has a sound
~B. L. Bruce
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