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border crossing
an elephant stamps
my passport
~Colleen M. Farrelly
climate change
a flooded trunk
the elephant in the room
~Robert Witmer
Angles of Doubt
equilateral: a triangle with all angles equal to 60 degrees
symmetry
isosceles: a triangle with two congruent sides
the wandering eyes
obtuse: a triangle with an angle greater than 90 degrees
I
pretend not to notice
~Colleen M. Farrelly
tinkling triangles
the Pythagorean orchestra
a
roomful of squares
~Robert Witmer
twilight
falls into the pond
a last lotus blossom
on an unfinished poem
~Colleen M. Farrelly
bodies entwined
the last dance of the wasp
with the spider
~Melissa Dennison
the rhythm and clank
of magnets
I disappear through a wormhole
~Melissa Dennison
end of the season
the days are getting shorter
little by little
our shadows lengthen
before disappearing
fin de saison
les jours raccourcissent
petit à petit
nos ombres s’allongent
avant de s’estomper
~Marie Derley
Past and Future Writer’s Block
If future me had a time machine
I would come back to present me
and offer inspiration.
~Noah Berlatsky
another troubled summer sleepless flies
~Robert Witmer
heading north great white sharks
~Tejendra Sherchan
thought a staircase ending mid air
~Vijay Prasad
full of himselfie
~Robert Witmer
starlight all the gods of aliens
~Anne Fox
golden
field -
the courage to be light
in a world turmoil
~Maria
Cristina Pulvirenti
her
sunglasses
blocking out the U-me
~Richard L. Matta
frozen account
a bitcoin bounces
at the bank
~Richard L. Matta
panning for gold
near the bank
the river of time
~Robert Witmer
thickly layered paint
war and peace
every time a bit different
~Maya Daneva
Ekphrastic
gnostic reading
my paintin' shoes
are canvas too
~dan smith
1980
in my best party dress
I change parties
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
church service
MAGA supporters
and opponents
pray to
the same God
~John J. Dunphy
birdsong…
the many names of god
decreasing daily
~Anne Fox
almost home
the ever-moving edge
of other
~Anne Fox
my life
a raindrop
on its way to a flood
~Robert Witmer