Evening of January 22, 2026

 


trees

feel the wind sun and rain

can't hear the screams

~dan smith




When I promised I'd make you

a good husband, I didn't

mean it would be me

~Richard Magahiz




the headless camel dropped its load

  then slipped into a crack

~Richard Magahiz




half past midnight

the day spooled out

from backup

~Richard Magahiz




Epilogue


I read the book

Page by page.                         

At last, I think

The end revisits

For a new beginning.

~Pravat Kumar Padhy




red stained floor

on the slab

allies lie bleeding

~Melissa Dennison




Super Wolf Moon

my growing aversion

to the color orange

~Jackie Chou




poetry reading

the expanding belly

of a round robin

~Jackie Chou




mockingbird song

she pretends to know me

more than myself

~Jackie Chou




after the wildfires

the poke of debris

under my soles


~Jackie Chou




where the sky

meets the mountains

and the sea

the thin line between

friend and enemy

~Jackie Chou




On a Summer Day


The packed elevator

was stuck between floors

so the hot passengers

had to face the muzak.

~Gloria Parker




Greenland

modern Vikings

attracted by the name


~Douglas J. Lanzo




stop-loss orders

what politicians crave

to staunch poll bleeding

~Douglas J. Lanzo




singularity

AI stock trader

buys breakout stocks


~Douglas J. Lanzo




Berry pie

Too fresh

For its own good

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




groove worn deep

in the shape of my thumb

worry stone

~Jennifer Gurney




standing on the shore

searching the horizon

for answers

~Jennifer Gurney




Duh


Perfection

is the

enemy

of good

that wins

every time

because

it’s perfection.

~Chad Parenteau




ravaging her beauty scabies

~Tejendra Sherchan




wild cherry honey a bitch's love

~Tejendra Sherchan




secure in the knowledge of super-glue

~Michael Henry Lee




righting as many

wrongs as possible

upside down cake

~Michael Henry Lee




biting us

in the name of democracy

for decades...

the snake trapped

in a spider's web

~Tejendra Sherchan




right-side up

in an upside down world

hanging flowers


~Albert Schlaht




a sudden gust

takes his foul air

and moves it along—

fleeing pigeons

~Albert Schlaht

 

 

 

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