Afternoon of August 7, 2025

 

 

The last book my dad read

was a biography of Neville Chamberlain.

I wish he’d finished it.

I wish he hadn’t finished.

~Noah Berlatsky

running my finger

on old dents

strawberry moon

~Jiel Narvekar

summer vacation

spending time

with the dentist

~Patricia Carragon

water under the bridge

          being swept away

by the flood

~John J. Dunphy

summer haze

a concealed coot

finds its way

~Gareth Nurden

reflections

filling a lido

summer sun

~Gareth Nurden

in the garden

the rose bush explodes with life

your last words to me

~Jennifer Gurney

closet space

full of your absence

~Anne Fox

in other people’s windows         

a glimpse

of myself

~Anne Fox

the self-help manual

all out of ink

autumn drizzle

~Joanna Ashwell

puddle rainbows another splash back to Kansas

~Joanna Ashwell

another month the hostages still not home

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

alter ego i get sucked into a black hole

~Mona Bedi

into the afterlife a shaman’s promise

~Mona Bedi

tv news some hostages we know by name

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

saturn that parent who mixes up his kids' names

~Martina Matijević

2 hours

up the gravel road

lost

in the right direction

~Belinda Behne

as society

crashes around us

smh

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Pin the tail

On the donkey

My back patch

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

infinite regress

she takes a selfie

with the Mona Lisa

~Joshua St. Claire

corporate training

the meticulously made materials

I’ll never look at again

~Joshua St. Claire

we all have

a tragic backstory

indigo plums

~Joshua St. Claire