Afternoon of November 23, 2025

 

Messages

~dan smith

gliding through skyscrapers

I too fall in love

with my AI avatar

~Jackie Chou

escaping

into the breaths

of shakuhachi

our lives before

the immigrant blues

~Jackie Chou

pageant breakfast

stalks of green grapes

on our tiny plates

~Jackie Chou

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cat walk haiku

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky

Windy day

Leaves on the oak

Try to hang on

So do I

    So do I

~Tom Blessing

wrapped in a flag

old white man believing

he is america

~Tom Blessing

she had her way with my words

~dan smith

zen garden letting weeds be weeds

~Bryan Rickert

my usual walk but backwards the earth’s spin

~Bryan Rickert

I look at my screen

and remember

yesterday's screen

~Noah Berlatsky

fire drums

across the plains

tent cities

~Sherry Reniker

wisecracks–

a blind masseuse

walks my buttocks

~Sherry Reniker

sidewalk

near the feet

of the body's chalk outline

passerby places

a banana peel

~John J. Dunphy

racing against

the clock

still trying

to figure out life

before hitting 72

~John J. Dunphy

dioxide skies

the relentless rage

of refineries

~Stephanie Zepherelli

self-help book not feeling the hieroglyphics

~Stephanie Zepherelli

the soup

needing more water

homeless camp

~Stephanie Zepherelli

bleached bones

the only remains

of shipwrecked dreams

~Stephanie Zepherelli