Afternoon of December 28, 2025

 


Christmas morning

my cat gifts me

a hairball


~John J. Dunphy




Christmas swim -

the indifferent sea

swallows two men

~Penny Lowery




I watch the fruitcake

gifted to us

by our neighbor

being devoured by

a squirrel

~John J. Dunphy




We ordered Christmas dinner

and then forgot the restaurant closed at 12.

There will be no Christmas dinner.

We may have to eat the elves.

~Noah Berlatsky




Christmas Eve

no room at

the homeless shelter


~John J. Dunphy




burning log -


deep winter

outside


~Maria Cristina Pulvirenti




Get sick

Get well

It’s hard to tell

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




The edge


Of disarrayed change


Screeching window crows

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




re dact

un re dact

re re dact

dact

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




in the beehive democracy

~Tejendra Sherchan




snowflakes changing my point of view


~Cezar Ciobîcă




war dove

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




you too can be a conjunction


~Tiffany Rindler




the dusk you dream of becoming

~Tiffany Rindler




i was

the river

and so

were you

~Tiffany Rindler




just now

watching the sun

become a black hole

~Sharon Ferrante




when I mix red and green

      and yellow and blue

I get only brown


~Mark Gilbert




forgetting/

her/

number/


forgetting/

mine/

~Mark Gilbert




pushing this cage on wheels

from room to room,

never complaining,

and yet she’s a Capricorn,

like me

~Mark Gilbert




Roswell, New Mexico

its first tourist from

another planet

~John J. Dunphy




writer's block


the chatbot encourages me


to change my muse

~Cezar Ciobîcă




winter evening


the stone angel asks


for a hug


~Cezar Ciobîcă




happy new year

don’t disillusion me…

sounding like rain

I’m just wind

through old trees

~Sharon Ferrante




unwrapping

the New Year

batteries not included

~Alvin B. Cruz



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