when the Milky Way Galaxy was above and below the chained dipper
~Patrick Sweeney
the high anatomy of chewing vegetable roots and gazing at stars
~Patrick Sweeney
out
of
time
&
hyper
space
earth
no
longer
earth
~Randy Brooks
Hang On!
Moon age
day dreamer.
~Keith Snow
Earth again at last
herds of bison keep
radio silence
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
a snake vanishes—
gravity pulls it down
into the black hole
~Suraj Nanu
the cake exploded
the guest of honor briefly
surprised by the claws
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
zydeco deathmatch
another busker thrown
to the gators
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
"how could they be so dumb?"
child asks his parents
after watching historical reenactors
depict
racism
~John J. Dunphy
monsoon at the end...
ants trailing thins out
in my bathroom
~Tejendra Sherchan
pest control
she brooms the salesman
off the porch
~Randy Brooks
I heard that there was a paradise.
But we wouldn't have it anymore.
Some idiot would have lost it.
~Marie Derley
a man’s shadow...
shrinks and vanishes
as he leaves the light
~Tejendra Sherchan
The blunt skeletons in sharp competition
The cloudy morning.
The three-wheelers are rushing breathlessly
To catch more passengers.
I watch and watch day by day
The blunt skeletons in sharp competition
And correct a geography lesson-
Every day the sun rises in the west.
~Partha
Sarkar
buttonholing perfect strangers with observational irrelevancies
~Patrick Sweeney
we had tsetse flies and H-bombs when I was your age
~Patrick Sweeney
in her quiet way, she answered all my Chinese destinies
~Patrick Sweeney
already dropped
so many shoes
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
active crime scene crumbs of the cupcake lady
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
Haiku
Dilemma
I must rearrange
the poetry books. Alas,
I’m not ready yet.
~Noah Berlatsky
Mahout
just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike
the yellow straw
~Patrick Sweeney
father
said to son while counting the change in his pocket:
please
don't breathe
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
(Originally published in Pate Journal)
although asphyxiation was improbable,
a full congregation
simultaneously exhaling
~Patrick Sweeney
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