Afternoon of October 20, 2025

 


Mudslide Rainbow

~dan smith




postmortem . . .
 
she never cared enough

to haunt me now

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




morning coffee ~

my bluebird

back from yonder

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




end of TIME

issues

keep coming


~Nicholas De Marino




rubbery

leathery

Halloween masky

~Nicholas De Marino




The mask


The mask never tells a lie.

~Partha Sarkar




The house burned down.

Now I am free to feel the wind.

It is cold.

~Noah Berlatsky




pumpkin piƱata

crushing the skull

of an orange devil

~Stephanie Zepherelli




string quartet

the swirling crescendo

of weed wackers

~Stephanie Zepherelli




purple phase

the taste of lavender

ice cream

~Stephanie Zepherelli




staring 

down 

snow 

globe 

she 

stops 

time

~Stephanie Zepherelli




caterpillars

tight roping –

missile fragments

~Elliot Diamond




A Weighted Body


I didn't always do the best I could.

Sometimes I did the worst.

I just didn't know it then.

Didn't make many mistakes just a few

major ones. The epigenetic

cell destroying kind that ripple

outward like a weighted body

dumped in a well. A soul eating

malignancy so unforgiving.

This is what passes for apology.

~dan smith




pogostuck-

social media electorate

super silly us

~dan smith




shapeshifting at night

to shine in the sky

asters

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad




he cried when the monsters sang 'Happy Birthday'

~Patrick Sweeney




mom would've told them

to stick out their lying tongues

~Patrick Sweeney




wait here, he's telling the cigarette ash in the potato salad story

~Patrick Sweeney




he's going on about Archimedes again

to six kids on twelve elbows


~Patrick Sweeney




he knew he moved his lips when reading

and he knew what Hemingway said about it


~Patrick Sweeney




I dream of a poem so small

only fairies can find the beginning


~Karen A VandenBos




cicada

exoskeleton

out of body experience


~Karen A VandenBos




the moonlight gave him paws


~dan smith




zombie wedding everyone has cold feet


~
dan smith

 

  



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