Afternoon of January 20, 2025


diving

into the new year

no intention of touching bottom

~Jennifer Gurney




desert Houdinis

a royal flush of camels

folds into sand

~Douglas J. Lanzo




shifting perspectives

a boy

and a chameleon

~Douglas J. Lanzo




into

the great wide

open

~Jennifer Gurney




remembering

mental illness

remembering

what

no memory

of why

~Shasta Hatter




the bruising number of times

I had five apples

take away two

~Patrick Sweeney




inching

toward spring

one more minute of light

~Jennifer Gurney




iron deep pan

standing the heat for years

frying donuts

~Tejendra Sherchan




add a Manchurian blizzard or two to your picture of me

~Patrick Sweeney




enough of fragility of ice covering the lake

~Fatma Zohra Habis




Now Streaming:  Consciousness

~Kelly Moyer




mad in the mirror of this rented room

~Patrick Sweeney




press conference pressing a little harder

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




the kind of guy who doesn't count to ten

~Patrick Sweeney




within a ptolemaic universe workshopping poems

~Kelly Moyer




in 1959 I said yes to the Spumoni

~Patrick Sweeney




paternity testing in accordance with cupid's thermodynamic arrow of time

~Kelly Moyer




I cross

the bridge at night

to the other side

the dawn breaks

and all my plans are lost

~Fatma Zohra Habis




pussyhats

back in season

this January

~Morag Elizabeth Humble




January 20

I listen to MLK, Jr's

'I have a dream' speech

while watching on mute

the inauguration

~John J. Dunphy

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