Afternoon of January 17, 2026

 

 

 

monsoon dream

a flood flows back

up a mountain

~Tejendra Sherchan




boomer-ang

Doc suggests coming back

for dementia screening

~Adele Evershed




moldy orange

your dementia

diagnosis

~marie c lecrivain




the

morning

stillness has

a sharp edge to it

that forces me to recognize

my need for silence

will never

release

me

~marie c lecrivain




a shimmer

of wings

deep inside

the worm's lair

~Melissa Dennison




fathoms deep

the dead eye

looking back at me

~Melissa Dennison




inedible my poetry

~Tejendra Sherchan




cenotaph

behind the names

other names

~Maya Daneva




South Chicago Night


Night is drifters,

sugar rats, streetwalkers,

pickpockets, pimps,

insects, Lake Michigan perch,

sounds of Herring gulls.

Neon tubes are blinking.

Half the local streetlights

bulbs burned out.

~Michael Lee Johnson




Jesus Was


Jesus was a poetry man.

Words were in his eyeballs,

His retina.

20-20 sight but a universal default.

Tears wept down on an old Olive tree

Or was it a dogwood tree cross?

Mystery waits out the years.

Resurrection and returns

a slow retail business.

~Michael Lee Johnson




at the drive-in

a screech owl

blinks reruns

~Elliot Diamond




iridescent raindrops

on my iPhone screen

when the kitchen light flips

cockroaches disappear

~Thomas Smith




Truth for Poets


You are only as important

as your most important

acknowledgement

~Noah Berlatsky




wolf moon

looking up

the meaning of yiff

~Adele Evershed




hot spell—

feeling

the witch

inside

myself

~Adele Evershed




gooseberry fool—

he tries to remove

the green from Greenland

~Adele Evershed

 

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