Afternoon of June 25, 2025

  

 

dogerwauling on a dogamaran outside the dogacombs

~Nicholas De Marino

She

moths

toward

the glow

where

it didn't

land.

~Nicholas De Marino

The squeaky ghost gets the exorcism.

~Nicholas De Marino

creaky old house

not the same ghost

I grew up with

~Randy Brooks

power washer

the addiction of

before and after

~Randy Brooks

to leave

or not

permanent twilight

~Tiffany Elise

lava like i know

how to chill

~Tiffany Elise

ssstatic the ego so easily shreds 

~Tiffany Elise

climate change

are cobras really moving

up the mountains?

~Tejendra Sherchan

Jung Avocado, Tesla Toast

What even is telepathy? I mean, just text me!

~Isaac Offski

stacking

exotic building blocks

in the microcosm

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

lonely hearts club please bring another lonely heart for a membership discount

~Martina Matijević

“You're not invited to my party!" - cancel culture before cancel culture

~Martina Matijević

How much patience would Buddha still have after a conversation with world leaders?

~Martina Matijević

my husband’s not just a pretty face

whose truth yours or mine

~Linda L Ludwig

even her hellos sound like a reproach

~dan smith

Propaganda 2025

too many

Leni Reifenstahls

not enough

Lilli Marlenes

~dan smith

When

every street corner

looks like a Brecht/Weill opera

and your brainwashed children

inform on you

maybe then you will know

what you threw away

~dan smith

This Place

He inna better place

What place? There is no other place

Well, better'n this place

~Isaac Offski

Please Do Not Call The Cops On Our Lawn

 

The long grass waves because

we have not cut the long grass.

 

The neighbors are irritated but the bees

are bobbing like idle balloons

 

amidst the weeds. Grow where you will,

grass, over the sidewalk and the dog poop

 

and the neighbors’ angry stares. We are

bad neighbors but the grass

 

hides rabbits and many faults

in its mute and shaggy dance.

~Noah Berlatsky

jellyfish

the door slams

fallen souffle

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky

Never feed a stray cat, they said

we fed a stray cat…or two

they adopted us

now

we feed twenty-two cats

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky

Plates of moo shu

Celebration for one

Pouring jasmine tea

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Placing cookies

Under pillows

To dream of love

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Good deeds

And some egg rolls

Along the way

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

first contact…

an alien bug

on my tomato

~Sharon Ferrante

it’s ok to be ghosted

I have all his LPs

~Sharon Ferrante

with a rotten peach I bribe the fly on the wall

~Sharon Ferrante

the lies sound familiar this murder mystery

~Sharon Ferrante

telling the cactus you’ll have water in about two weeks

~Sharon Ferrante

foreign policy sticking to our guns

~dan smith

I have no cursor, I am cursed

~dan smith