RULES OF THUMB
Desire
is bad for your posture,
Thinking is bad for your breath,
Life
is bad for your health
~Richard Collins
class action
with all your
spare
time
~Jerome Berglund
Good
Dog
The good dog has one job:
do not step in poop.
She
failed.
~Noah Berlatsky
our grandfathers
firing cannons
above
the clouds
~Jerome Berglund
seasons below ground
only if
you
change floors
~Jerome Berglund
YES, EMPTINESS
These snowcloud mountains
struck by a slanting
sliver of dawn —
an avalanche
of
silence.
~Richard Collins
local eatery
an adjacent diner
finger-combing
his beard
~Tuyet Van Do
The
Brave Thing
what’s left of your face is swollen
another nurse every six hours
who you will never
have children with
keeps looking
at her phone.
~John
Dorsey
Progress
Few appreciate
the ubiquitous flush toilet
but elderly folks,
often repeatedly,
WHOOSH
watch and
wonder.
~Allan Lake
HALF
MOON FULL BRIGHT
a broken silver doubloon
bitten in half by a toothless knight
this half moon still shines
its
full worth
~Richard
Collins
the
night hoots
a worm moon
slips to day
~Elliot
Diamond
Moon shimmering
Plum blossoms
The
cards I’ve been dealt
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
Weird feeling
Living a loop
Déjà
vu
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
length of day
a
dung beetle
rolling eyes
~Elliot Diamond
I WAS BORN IN 1952
I was born in 1952, a year most stellar,
ten years after the book Old Yeller,
when England first heard The Goon Show,
which revolutionized radio,
with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers,
spawning a generation of funny fellers.
and who could forget Singin’ in the Rain
with Gene Kelly higher on love than cocaine
and to think: I was just minus seven
when
Hiroshima was sent to heaven.
~Richard Collins
war
in hyperlink
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
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