Evening of December 13, 2023

 

to whom should I dedicate my tears?

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

nearing the earth, the second thoughts of snowflakes

~Patrick Sweeney

the mental exhaustion of the pathological liar

~Patrick Sweeney

waiting to remember where I am

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

my ear hurts as if there is no ear at all

 ~Mykyta Ryzhykh

I'd be the leaf tangled in your hair

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

you'll never catch a particle physicist saying 'it is what it is'

~Patrick Sweeney

Blueberry Weather

A gale's blowing up,

and there's ripe fruit to windward,

it'll soon be smashing fences,

frightening livestock,

blueing white-washed walls,

creating a god-awful mess,

but capture just one,

and we'll eat jam on toast

all year long.

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

when I tell them I don't have a phone

~Patrick Sweeney

on the attic stairs

with the phone cord stretched full out–

straining to hear cousins

~Jennifer Gurney

waking

inside the snake

too late
for the knife

on my nightstand

for a last breath

for anything

but regret

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

left turn lost

right turn

very lost

~Mike Fainzilber

out of your face

out of your space

out of your way

out of your day

I’ll be back…

~Mike Fainzilber

ants crawl on a coffee cup

swim in the dark pool

ah, the world's a bitter place!

~Fhen M.

of the six of us, mom said I was the only one who never learned to climb out of the playpen

~Patrick Sweeney

the summer man walked on the moon      I circumnavigated the ringworm on my brother's neck

~Patrick Sweeney

Starlink shoots

across the slate night sky

space chain letter

~JL Huffman

Brisk Trade

exporting ghosts to the stars

weightless and compressible

thousands in a box like so

dunno what they use 'em for

but their coin is good

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

equations

simulations

all the rest is poetry

~Mike Fainzilber

Zoom meeting

Hijacked by a narcissistic

Regular

“I’m the greatest poet never known”

Time to get a drink

~Diane Funston

poems don't have to end

~Mykyta Ryzhykh