Afternoon of August 11, 2025

 

exposition boulevard

pick a fight

and you'll hear some truth

~Jerome Berglund

proxy server

stars and stripes on

the fire hydrant

~Jerome Berglund

smoke detector

warm to the touch

friendly fire

~Jerome Berglund

approachable

the paradox or irony

to a basket muzzle

~Jerome Berglund

summer vacation —

traveling around

hospitals

~Maurizio Brancaleoni

Door unlocked

But the key

Is rusty

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Hemlock is not poisonous

Hemlock is not poisonous.

Yet if you drink it and die,

you are responsible.

Does it tell you to drink?

~Partha Sarkar

I suffocate

I cannot see the trees, the birds and other winged angels.

After sunset I suffocate.

~Partha Sarkar

Don’t think of it as

talking to a friend.

Think of it as

building your brand.

~Noah Berlatsky

World economic relationship

Billabong.

Billboard.

Billets-doux.

Yet no billhead.

Then billingsgate,

billhook and

Billy goat is retrenched.

~Partha Sarkar

feeding time

a little black bug

for the Venus Flytrap

~Ruth Holzer

my father's only suit

looking sharp on

a thrift store mannequin

~John J, Dunphy

seashore

the heavy bucket

of adult sand…

~Sharon Ferrante

burning my finger

doing a spell

with dragon’s blood

~Sharon Ferrante

retirement living off the fruits of war

~Ruth Holzer

quid GoPro

~Jerome Berglund

down by the river migrants fishing for supper

~Ruth Holzer

the business of this world not my circus

~Ruth Holzer

so a man walks into a b AR-5. . .

~Ruth Holzer

 

 

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