Afternoon of January 24, 2025

 

every city grows vertically

snow falls vertically

the coffin is horizontal

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




Shadows in Jail

 

Shadows from the snow fence

stretch in jail-cell menace

across the drift blowing higher

in an attempt to escape

and race across the flats

to riot between highway lines

in the do-not-pass zone.

~Diane Webster




Sleep Still

 

Ponderosa pine needles

encased in ice weave

together like a spider web

knitted with January’s

breath frozen silent

so the predator spider

still sleeps its hibernation.

~Diane Webster




Path View

 

Barbed wire spirals

around wooden fence post

like cartoon bumblebee’s

path dotted for the audience's

viewing pleasure.

~Diane Webster




diamonds underfoot one grain of rice glistens

~Richard Magahiz




bird drinks voice

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




off the map coast-to-coast madness

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




the old master bleeds scriptures written in water

~Richard Magahiz




If I had a time machine

I would go back

and helplessly change nothing.

I would have no power to change anything.

But at least they would not have happened

all the things we knew would happen

and could not stop.

~Noah Berlatsky




like a crooked bone

rubbing against

its socket

a sputtering

inner planet

~Richard Magahiz




Journey or Destination

 

If the tree had never grown

on top of the hill,

would the side-by-side

trails of the road

have been made

to reach it?

~Diane Webster


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