Afternoon of March 26, 2024

 

shopping for beets under authoritarian rule

~Patrick Sweeney

from a 2D circle

Platonic Solids may be drawn

the building blocks of the cosmos.

~Fhen M.

first day of spring

his walk ends at

the prison wall

~John J. Dunphy

great eclipse expectations

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

this planet is hexahedron

according to the flatearthers.

~Fhen M.

OSTEOLOGY

You cried all through

the class where I

learned the heel-bone can

shatter, cheap Christmas

ornament lodged beneath

our skin. A car too blue

parked too close. I

walk past each step

I hear my break

~Hershel Burgh

almost unrecognizable —

thank goodness

I don't look old like

everyone else

at my class reunion

~John J. Dunphy

wink wink but still

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

ants raid a tree trunk

feasting frenziedly on

a sugar maple

~Chris Collins

so it goes

down the rabbit hole

a hungry snake

~Stephen Jarrell Williams

rearranging garden stones

shorting the Pleiades

by one

~Patrick Sweeney

HEDONIST

I live not for love but because the dead

Cannot feel a cat purr, or a poem read

~Hershel Burgh

a vein of Potosi silver on the neck of the woman in charge

~Patrick Sweeney

calming yourself down

before you fall

in love with her

~Stephen Jarrell Williams

she wants to paint a laundromat fresco of my ugly feet

~Patrick Sweeney

now more accurate

the crucified Jesus' skin darkened

by the church fire

~John J. Dunphy

stirring the pool

full of broken promises

bottom of your heart

~Stephen Jarrell Williams

climate change::the mezzo-soprano of ice

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

mountain cutaway   the blue whale's slow turn to polar waters

~Patrick Sweeney