Evening of October 10, 2025

 

Cathedral of the In-Between

~dan smith



Oak trees know all about asphyxia but nothing about death

Flowers know all about withering but nothing about resurrection

The sun knows all about warmth but nothing about love

The moon knows all about night but nothing about passion

And I leave again knowing nothing as alone as at birth

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




During the plague

Еveryone writes poetry

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




No MFA

 

I have never taught a poetry class.

I tried to be a poetry teacher but I failed.

I am still failing.

There is nothing to learn here.

~Noah Berlatsky




cypress tree knees

a riderless kayak

knocks

~Randy Brooks




doing things together

fitted sheets

don’t

~Randy Brooks




an inheritance of flowers

the neighbor’s wife

revives him

~Randy Brooks




human bean

the bent reflection of ICE

on Michigan Avenue

~Randy Brooks



 

training grounds

make my heart sink

as they become killing fields

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky




farm field

ICE agents joke about

harvesting illegals

~John J. Dunphy




Captain Vibrato


You sailed on ships of light

out beyond our wisps of stars.

Sent us postcards

filled with trembling trees

and all your mad fragility

that pled: wish you were here.

They were postmarked Immortality.

~dan smith




You


fall out

and crawl over

and climb up

into you.

~Noah Berlatsky




deli fresh    pâté de foie humain


~Richard Magahiz



 

it is all rotten

but some of it

wears perfume

~Richard Magahiz




as flesh and metal try to occupy a single point

~Richard Magahiz




nobody wants a lecture on

the distance between oxygen molecules

at high altitude

~Patrick Sweeney




the Yang side of the man

who doesn't want to talk about it

~Patrick Sweeney




the singer talked about the missing verse

in the song he was about to sing

~Patrick Sweeney




he used to say 'it will all go on the next day without me' and it did

~Patrick Sweeney




militarization...

tell me again,

how does a maple leaf ignite

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 


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