Morning of September 20, 2025


 

holding a gold leaf

mom told me not to play

with fire

~Diane Webster




vanishing

the piece of candy

and ants

~Diane Webster




Ants

Ants carry a dead ant.

A procession after a pause.

~Partha Sarkar




Free speech is a poem.

 

Poems end.

~Noah Berlatsky




carrying a load

I struggle to climb

up a jagged mountain

in a dream

~Tejendra Sherchan




Sandcastles

Collecting memories

That were set aside

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




after the shooting

we finally find out

what’s in the backpack

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




back to the drawing board

breaking in the wind

the spider's web

~Michael Buckingham Gray




clouded sulphur butterfly in the middle of a three-run-homer

~Patrick Sweeney




she made me feel better about being a 'nobody, too'

~Patrick Sweeney




praying for the intercession of a saint

who burned clothespins

to keep warm

~Patrick Sweeney




he hid the hole in the wall with a scroll

he couldn't read

~Patrick Sweeney




tax deductions

his monogrammed golf balls

in the pond

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




a cracked dream system

numbed need for concrete future

animate process

~Scott C. Holstad




ice cream cone

flavors from the dirty

aquarium

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



eternalhorrorland violence of murderscene

                                                                          – I was the Zavior

~Scott C. Holstad




digital deathmatch

keyboard warriors battle

peace and love KO'd

~Gretchen VanOstrand




I'm not mad at god

burning down his creation

hell, I'd do it too

~Gretchen VanOstrand




-41

welcome

to 1984

~dan smith

 

 

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