Morning of September 13, 2024

 

Please, Take a Seat

~Kelly Moyer

Photos available here




sleepless night

a tiny version of me

in the freezer

~Emil Karla



the owl

on the lookout

for dragons

~Emil Karla




generation gap

missing cow's milk

with my coffee

~Melissa Dennison




first bite

a baby leech

on my ankle

~Tejendra Sherchan




lightning can strike twice —

the second wife

also a psychopath

~Stacy Taylor




total eclipse —

people don’t see

what they don’t want to see

~Stacy Taylor




a spiritualist

in dark shades

smiles at the eclipse

~Robert Witmer




certitude

to be lost and to find

your own footprints

~Robert Witmer




psychedelic moon landing

I fantasize...

all of those small steps

we never took

~Joana Figueiredo




lost deeper

in the static blackness

we stare

at the turned off TV; we are

nothing more than

shadow silhouettes; trapped

on bare screens

~Joana Figueiredo




in need of a hug runaway train

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




in the city of self-pity knowing the residents by name

~Joana Figueiredo




these pebbles in my hand

far older than I will ever be

                          yet

~Tom Blessing




who i was

i am not

who i am

i will not be

impermanent

like the wave

~Tom Blessing




waiting for the garbage truck

ravens, seagulls, and me

~Tom Blessing




dying from drought

the weeds around

the fire hydrant

~John J. Dunphy




aurora borealis

setting the focus

to infinity

~Rupa Anand




the innocence of

believing David Cassidy

could be mine

~Jennifer Gurney




seashells —

nothingness

of the serial hoarder

~Maurizio Brancaleoni




A stillborn citizen


A festoon stands

By a galloping train

In rain.

Sees the clock time-

A poem without rhyme.

And taunts the citizen.

Does the festoon know why?

~Partha Sakar




blue dream

everything that helps close

the ozone hole

~Fatma Zohra Habis





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