Afternoon of April 29, 2025

 


Hotel Note


~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




dust motes

in a sunlight shaft

this rhetoric

of existentialism

every now and then

~Arvinder Kaur




It don't mean a thing

if Buddha ain't got that zen,

so blow that green smoke!

~Morley Cacoethes

 

 



Tell me, cat, when you

reincarnate, will you come

back as homeless me?

~Morley Cacoethes




Gritting My Rodent-Resembling Teeth


Triturating my rodent-resembling top teeth on

their nether, underneath counterparts

gritting them like a tree’s bark against a saw,

like a nail file against a cat’s overly sharp claws,

I wither myself away into ivory shards;


Admittedly, when I have no sustenance I gnaw

on my body’s infinitely available flaws,

until I’m left dismantled in my own boneyard.

~Mira Fox




The Very Itch of Me


within the shadows i lurk and when you least except it there i am floating upon you with

deepening urges desiring in impaling you –annoyingly hovering over you constantly dancing

about you –longing to be near and close as your ear humming my cravings in touching you

everywhere anywhere you leave expose to me; legs arms fingers lips neck and back –your skin

so erotically appetizing –exciting me into a frenzy of implying and suckling upon you –tickling

your toes nibbling at those tender lobes exploring all of you –i loiter in stalking you till i pounce

drinking you in filling myself full of you sharing the very disease of me –then taking flight only

to return –addicted to the very DNA of you for our bond is strong –such intimacy we shared

having left my mark upon you –causing you to recall remembrances in the very itch of me.


~Michael Butkovich

 

 


long after

the ink has dried

family, still

~Jennifer Gurney





The Good Fight

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer





 

 

 

 





Collapsed squares become wrecktangles.

~Richard Kostelanetz




Death’s life’s “bottom line.”

~Richard Kostelanetz




Robots are modern slaves.

~Richard Kostelanetz




Some speak nonsense unintentionally.

~Richard Kostelanetz




Correct punctuation goes unnoticed.

~Richard Kostelanetz




Whatever is was possible.

~Richard Kostelanetz




rumbling thunder

silencing all the chattering

for once

~Tejendra Sherchan




green skies

I try to remember

Earth

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




lost colony

naught but shard and bone

a howl at the moons

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




between wishing and fulfilment Saturn’s transit


~Arvinder Kaur




green spring loving the alien

~Scott Wiggerman




hidden tunnel

light on the other

side of the world

~Scott Wiggerman




responding

to an ancient call

mourning doves

~Scott Wiggerman



closed casket

a fly mourns

to get in

~Scott Wiggerman




the bulldozer

is faster than the tree

law of the jungle

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

 

 

Deadline May 1: Nominate (2024) poetry

for the Dwarf Stars 2025 Anthology

http://www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html

 


 



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