Afternoon of June 28, 2025

 


the demon

chasing me

stumbles

I pause to let it

catch up

~John J. Dunphy




pyroclastic 

     flow

         the slow

  hardening

 of

  attitudes

~John Hawkhead




woodlouse memoir

damp

has a beginning

~C.X. Turner




one sock gone

mid-spin

conspiracy of lint

~C.X. Turner




writer's block

fluttering white butterfly

in the summer dusk

~Tejendra Sherchan




music blares

in a moving bus

dancing beanies

~Tejendra Sherchan




in my head

bird song

stops

~Noah Berlatsky




part sculptor

part sculptee...

love

~Jennifer Gurney




tree

poem

lovely

be it

apple

or orange

~dan smith




Paducah's easy,

try spelling syzygy

when you've got a broken toe

~Patrick Sweeney




going on a bit about electrons...

when their faces bent to phones

like Sartre on mescaline

~Patrick Sweeney




a victim of quantum systems

her work shoes

polished white

~Patrick Sweeney




worms in a dark puddle

all those drowned

and drowning hearts

~Patrick Sweeney




Human psychology


Human psychology...

The slanting rays through black clouds.

~Partha Sarkar




ophthalmologist's waiting room

receptionist helps a patient

find her husband

~John J. Dunphy




directing me

to Terminator 2

AI movie bot

~Douglas J. Lanzo



organic protest

vegetables tossed

from farmer’s market

~Douglas J. Lanzo



leading by accident

the most popular

body shop in town

~Douglas J. Lanzo




in the name

of a dead elderly man

allowance payments

~Tejendra Sherchan


 


she says I was born with it

~C.X. Turner



sharing elements of a star me

~Tejendra Sherchan



not what I say who I am

~John Hawkhead



societal healing too many decades to count

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

he gives pop quizzes to perfect strangers

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

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