Afternoon of January 9, 2025

2025

and they thought we'd have

jet packs and flying cars

~Melissa Dennison

he noted the absence of snoods in the zeitgeist

~Patrick Sweeney

he'd spring impossible math problems on you

and always in front of someone

you secretly loved

~Patrick Sweeney

blue-eyed gaze

of an orange cat

is that the face

of one who hunts

for birds and mice

~Jackie Chou

'Shouting indistinctly' in the old war movie, a guy from the neighborhood

~Patrick Sweeney

underground railroad

a Mississippi river town

no one knows

~Randy Brooks

at the top of the stairs

out of mother’s closet

a prom dress

~Randy Brooks

Piece In The Valley

here a gun

there a gun

everywhere

a gun gun

~dan smith

It’s funny

What you remember

Under a vast sky

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Late night,

I look up

to greet

the self-loathing

I was hoping

to save

for tomorrow.

~Noah Berlatsky

angry

origami cranes

paper cuts

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

high winds

a dozen ravens

hold the maple down

~Tom Blessing

a murder of crows

the tree pretending

it's dead

~Patricia Carragon

icy pavements

resolutions

just slipping away

~Melissa Dennison

alley

in front of his cardboard box

a welcome mat

~John J. Dunphy

The Zen of Old Timers

breaking pots

fleeting thoughts

perfecting non-attachment

~dan smith

winter seclusion, when there's no sugar bowl to break

~Patrick Sweeney

winter horsefly, go on with your bad self

~Patrick Sweeney

another hyperventilating method actor on channel 5

~Patrick Sweeney

New Year's Day

unmasking the old year

with the new one

~Patricia Carragon

no red envelopes

given or received

by relatives

are we losing face

this new snake year

~Jackie Chou

 

 

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