Evening of June 5, 2025

 

anxiously processing the weather conditions

on the I-80 corridor

and I don't even drive

~Patrick Sweeney

so those villagers

gathered sharp tools?

yeah? turn back...

~Richard Magahiz

still chewing

upthrust ridgelines with

diamond tooth scoops

~Richard Magahiz

Equanimity Ltd.

In time, easy elasticity

becomes brittle stress

and that is just Nature.

Creatures should be

content to feel sun,

be caught in rain;

however, if SpaceX

space junk falls

on your head, feel

free to complain.

~Allan Lake

the intern speaks

breaks the hush

in the boardroom

~Jiel Narvekar

hindsight

twenty twenty

regrets

~Jennifer Gurney

shell shocked

by the ignorance

among us

~Jennifer Gurney

I still have

your ratty old sneakers

in the garage

~Jennifer Gurney

While Staying In My Grandson’s Room, I’ve Learned to Settle for…

less risky chaos;

pile of clothes thrown on a chair,

rather than on floor.

~Suzanne S. Austin-Hill

pothos

how I yearn

to propagate

~B. L. Bruce

beep beep beep a truck I cannot see backs up

~M. R. Pelletier

all this time i watched the news waiting for the taco bell to ring

~Tom Blessing

I'm a buffalo nickel in a cashless society

~Patrick Sweeney

I think the sign said: Please don't ask the calligrapher what anything means

~Patrick Sweeney

love a fifteen-month hard drug

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

infatuation playing Russian roulette again

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

my slow recovery from the waiter's description of the meat falling off the bone

~Patrick Sweeney

sundown a verb undoes itself

~Vijay Prasad

boron high altar solid smoke bricks

~Richard Magahiz

pearls the ocean depths already plundered

~Joanna Ashwell

forever (almost) never ever is

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

Brahma circumnavigating the trash can as a raccoon

~Patrick Sweeney

new car

forest essence

swaying

~Gareth Nurden

puddles

where horses roamed

sinking suns

~Gareth Nurden

lucid streetlights

blood in the veins

of a small town vista

~Gareth Nurden

blowing sahara sand

from a picnic table

margarita breath

~Gareth Nurden

donating my life

I give my alma mater

all my contributor's copies

~John J. Dunphy

“The past catches up”

the migrant says,

sobbing

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

minimum wage

every task

longer than the last

~Joanna Ashwell

fairy garden

the corner patch

out of time

~Joanna Ashwell

a variety of smells

surrounds me

full bus

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

button box

searching

for the right one

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

second-hand store

a step above

diminished expectations

~M. R. Pelletier

entrepreneurship

doing new things

with old means

~M. R. Pelletier