Afternoon of July 16, 2025

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when the strings

are pulled

he comes to life

and dances:

the wooden politician

false memories

of nonchalant beetles

and murders

committed by

nobody……….

~Mark Gilbert

Fahrenheit

telling me

the temperature

outside his window

and how to convert it

and who has died

~Mark Gilbert

flimsy locks

wiggling through the crack

a library card

~Jerome Berglund

at the half

everyone enters the field

to put it back together

~Jerome Berglund

trying to fit all

his personalities under one umbrella

wind chime

~Amber Winter

running to the finish line

vaping and smoking

simultaneously

~Amber Winter

Icarus Redux

from the cradle to the grave

a minefield

across no-man’s land

 

tonight's glue job

patching up today

for tomorrow’s next attempt

 

the moon drifting off, bored

the crickets spoken all they’re gonna

and my muse scrolling reels—

~Darrell Petska

seven sabbath sins since savior sent salvation – strangle society still

~Allen David Simon

battle cry silent stone statue

~Dara Royal

looking through a telescope and searching for the meaning of life in war among serene spots

~Martina Matijević

          pract  cally

            i

           ex  st

            ~Vijay Prasad

 

 

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