Afternoon of February 15, 2025

 















Knucklebone


Outside the moon is

a knucklebone and someone

     is staging a post-

post-modernist production

     of Our Town in the old black

     box theater of my dreams.


~Jason Ryberg




Passing Truck

How many lifetimes

ago did that passing truck

cause the coffee in

your cup to ripple, the plates

in the cupboard to rattle?


~Jason Ryberg




The djinn came out of the desert,

its wrath whirling like brains of sand


~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




Walkin’ Boss


On days like this (one

hundred-plus in the shade and

no breeze), the sun is

a mean walkin’ boss with a

     loaded cane, mirrors for eyes

     and a big dog on a chain.


~Jason Ryberg




Out Here


Underground rivers

of memory, country grave-

yards of secrets; out

here, the winters are always

old black and white photographs.


~Jason Ryberg




intermittent sleep

sneaking through the cracks

poem lyrics


~Fatma Zohra Habis




Blind Eye


There’s been a prison-

     break of poets, tonight, and

     the hound dogs and guards

     are all out in force, but the

     moon is casting a blind eye.


~Jason Ryberg




the stars come to us with their histories

the ones just arrived

            have the longest stories to tell


~Steve Horel




The World Below


The night sky is a

giant fishnet scattered with

its daily haul of

     glittering starfish and the

world below is an endless

     dark ocean of prairie grass.


~Jason Ryberg




night and day you are the pawn

~John H. Dromey




variable star

if you don't like the weather

wait a minute


~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




Ho Bug!

Don’t go near my garden

There lives the snake

Who works with me.


~Steve Horel




circus peanut


2am

she fashions a trapeze

from a fishing pole


~for Simone


Jean-Paul Moyer/Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

 

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