Afternoon of May 9, 2025

 

 

 

The Wayfarer

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

 

 

your voice fades—

the border draws quietly

Hands over ears

 ~Shinsaku Ashida

Aging—

watching a palace crumble

all alone

~Shinsaku Ashida

human lives are

like a dandelion’s seed,

drifting in the wind


~Shinsaku Ashida

sacrificing the stone

to the splash …

hitting rock bottom

~Kelly Sargent

adding political f(l)avor

the beady eyes

in muskrat stew

~Kelly Sargent

Get Out


You can

spend days

on a

campsite

and touch

no grass.


~Chad Parenteau

80 degrees

90% humidity

soggy cracker day


~Belinda Behne

everything he said --

the Mummy

takes it all back

~Rich Magahiz

bones

on the insides...

learning the way these joints bend

~Rich Magahiz

Hear now!

Ye rapscallions,

ye scallywags,

all ye fearsome taterdemalions:

hear well my beef

~Rich Magahiz

is

ittttttttttttttttttttt

time

toooooooooooooooo

st

oppppppppppppp

breath

ing

~Noah Berlatsky

Winding swirling

Wildflower brambles

So many reasons

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Not a good space

To eat a croissant or

Meet anybody

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

optometrist's office

I squint to read

my receipt

~John J. Dunphy

parallelogram

a sea of colour

at the city cafe

~Melissa Dennison

digital age

cresting a wave

a smile of 0s and 1s

~Melissa Dennison

white butterfly

plays footsie

with the flowers

~Melissa Dennison

deal deal deal

d
eal deal deal deal deal

deal deal deal

~Tejendra Sherchan

the ravens

well. they caw in joy or danger

all year long

~Tom Blessing

on our street

the joyful voices of birds

mingle with boys swearing

~Tom Blessing

‘Useless! Useless!’

Jack wrote

watching the rain

falling on the ocean

but he was

wrong

~Tom Blessing