Afternoon of August 6, 2025

 

steps off the path

the hope a first mushroom

brings

~Randy Brooks

doublespeak . . .

getting old living through

1984 again

~Randy Brooks

stranger in a strange land

the trout rainbow

over me

~Randy Brooks

hamburger diner

each customer perched on

their own pedestal

~Randy Brooks

pluto

exiled from solar system

still orbiting the sun

~Tejendra Sherchan

meteor shower

        brushing the 

sand off 

       a mermaid’s purse

~Stephen Toft

only my cat hears them

                                        falling stars

~Stephen Toft

day moon i thought you were dead butterfly

~Stephen Toft

final insult

plastic roses

on her grave

~Wanda Amos

dusk

her fear of  shadows …

sun-downing

~Wanda Amos

My ox won’t plow this

field where buffalo leapt

through flowers and fell.

~Terry Trowbridge

A healing and

appealing ion

might let one

seal     achieve

sea-lion status

~Charles A. Perrone

Bleak truth:

the envelope

is too small.

~Noah Berlatsky

green screams    the ninety-sixth name of God

~Richard Magahiz

the edges

of the frame things with

candy corn eyes

~Richard Magahiz

cries of RTs

the sun heating up

each chassis

~Richard Magahiz

the icy salt water

the spill of spiderflesh

~Richard Magahiz

Children are afraid that someone will knock on their window at night. Old people are

afraid that no one will ever knock on their door again.

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

 

 

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