We’re
passengers
on the Orient Express
killing time.
~Nolcha
Fox
night owl
at his regular perch
picking at a slice of pie
~Christopher Peys
mom's
gratitude
for doing the dishes
and holding my tongue.
family
politics
~Christopher
Peys
I aired my thoughts
on the clothesline. Someone
stole them, how thoughtless.
~Nolcha Fox
Even your successes are failures.
Even your memory forgets.
It is down a long way to have nothing in your hands.
It is down a long way to be nowhere.
~Noah Berlatsky
Hey diddle diddle
Trump said he jumped over the moon
To his disgust
A black hole swallowed him whole
The end
~Philip Hornblow
Floh
+ Floh = zwei
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
bite
of
brown recluse
scurry
of legs
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
field trip
urban kids learn
where milk comes from
~John J. Dunphy
high school activist
her yearbook photo
her first mug shot
~John J. Dunphy
the felon's fingerprints
lifted from
a baby bottle
~John J. Dunphy
eddy poe, jr.
"dada,
caw, caw…"
he
said
"Me a raven."
To which his father replied —
"Nevermore,
my little man,
go back to bed ...
forevermore."
~Christopher Peys
MoMA ...
an abstraction
of an abstraction
after the image
the afterimage …
still just dots
on a white wall
~Christopher Peys
feedback&distortiontheslowerosion
~Mark
Gilbert
ellipsing
around that which is not visible
~Mark
Gilbert
the
poet is a lamb drinking water
the wolf is a poem that eats us
poems
drown with us in sugar water
the
river of time moves towards uncertainty
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
(Originally published in Setu)
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