Afternoon of February 21, 2024

                

biting wind odontalgia

~JL Huffman




ice fog glassy limbs genuflect

~JL Huffman




career dreams

measured in pell grants

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




pendulum

back and forth – daily

to the office and back

~Marie Derley




Democracy is no more...

Then should there be

Another revolution?

I am not sure about

That cul-de-sac.

~Partha Sarkar




Birds pecked my silence

Winter covered screaming wounds with snow

Why can't I sew myself into a cocoon

Why can't I be resurrected as a butterfly?

~Mykyta Ryzhykh


(Originally published in Corporeal)




Death inside the head:

Love or pride?

I don't paint flowers on the wall of your back

I'm just coloring my gray lonely shadow

Question of silence:

Death or life without love?

~Mykyta Ryzhykh


(Originally published in
Corporeal)




I grab the tree but its branches don't care

I'm walking through the cemetery looking for life


I cry about the living because the

dead are indifferent to everything


I don't find anyone alive anywhere in this world

Only photographs on graves speak to me of love

~Mykyta Ryzhykh


(Originally published in boats against the current)




The bush is devoid of all berries

Autumn is now stripping off the leaves too

The future is uncertain

~Mykyta Ryzhykh


(Originally published in boats against the current)




light is faster than sound

I can see them but can't hear them.

~Fhen M.




light passes through the glass window

they can't see us in this darkness.

~Fhen M.

 



wood borer beetles tracks

exposed on an old log

untranslated ancient script

~Steve Van Allen




used science fiction paperbacks

the bookstore cat

suspicious

~Randy Brooks




nature preserve

the nickname for our yard

at the block party

~Randy Brooks









 

 

 

 

portraits gallery / paintings of dead monarchs rule / please take no photos

~Charles A. Perrone




Platitudes


Words

hollow enough

to hide knives.

~Chad Parenteau




Muppet Buffalo


Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà

Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà Mah Nà.

~Chad Parenteau

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