Afternoon of June 29, 2024

 


The Vanlifer

~Kelly Moyer 

Photography available here




wish I could download laundry print it out folded

~Keith Snow




he knew he was in trouble

when he began folding

his dirty laundry

~Patrick Sweeney




I need someone to scream out loud my thinking.

~James Penha




contemplate the moon

but don't let the neighbors see you

taking notes

~Patrick Sweeney




shoes

entirely superfluous

in summer

~Jennifer Gurney




From another era

 

We don't know exactly

the date of birth of Jesus Christ.

Perhaps he was born

a few years before Jesus Christ.

~Marie Derley




dirt streaked window

making broken patterns

rivers of obscured glass

~Rae Greenwood




becoming

a sidewalk toadstool

leapfrog

~Eavonka Ettinger




neighbor's incessant pounding headache

~Eavonka Ettinger




rotting mangoes

on a river bank—

smell still sweet

~Tejendra Sherchan




on a hushed mountaintop

I play a melodious music

a rhythm of dots, dash, & space

~Fhen M.




one night stand

up comic laid

off from his gig

~John J. Dunphy




pathless woods

this yearning

to discover myself

~Mona Bedi




filling my cup

with your absence

winter rain

~Mona Bedi




late night broadcasts the rustling understory

~John Pappas



creeping sepia becoming the unknown ancestor

~John Pappas




carrying with me the parts of me i wanted to leave behind

~Mona Bedi




Whiskey dogs in the scullery

Goose girls who keep fires lit

And go to and fro bearing wash

And children

Beyond is a carriage

Whose lantern burns

The color of absinthe

Horses bear it further Manes thick

With luminous flies and their

Hooves echo the Thunder of creation

~Joe Pagano




house steps

a vase of Calla Lilies

buried in the dust

~Tejendra Sherchan



then nothing

 

time goes by

and we go with it

in fifty years we won't be here

or in what condition

flowers that will bloom a few times

and then what?

~Marie Derley



bring me my horoscope and a Geiger counter

~Patrick Sweeney




she said: the quasi-scientific names of pharmaceutical products are only bothering you

~Patrick Sweeney


 

 

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