Afternoon of April 19, 2024

 

 

 

 

change of clothes —

every year it's a month earlier

~Maurizio Brancaleoni

“Caravaggio!

The power’s out again.”

“Who cares?

I’ve got a candle

and a job lot

of black paint.”

~Tony Dawson

birthdays

those Facebook friends

long dead

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

a slave desires freedom

a caged bird dreams of a heaven

~Fhen M.

to exercise free press

is never a given

~Fhen M.

one weaves a silken flag

to freely wave it is another thing

~Fhen M.

Stormy nights

At mid-morgue and

My shaky legs outside

crawling to closet.

But where is the threshold?

~Partha Sarkar

With acute poverty the poor —

The priceless commodities

In an election-

The democratic business

Without knowing why.

~Partha Sarkar

sailing into port wine

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Nuggets in ketchup blood

Burger from a killed pig

The grill is working at full capacity

Scorching the planet

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

The ultimate loneliness of death

A cat runs across the road at a red traffic light

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

the mouse ate the sun instead of cheese

glass grew instead of grass

rusty skeletons of snowflakes warm the remains of a nuclear power plant

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

shopping centre

a customer queueing

behind the mannequins

~Tuyet Van Do

fashion show

the model wears

an upside-down dress

~Tuyet Van Do

each morning

a 30% chance

of something

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

the sack  brown bag days

~Adrian Bouter

you flee

or you stay

flea

~Adrian Bouter