Evening of April 7, 2026

one dandelion
and no breeze
a possible future

~Marie C Lecrivain

the last black rhino

is gone

a slower

sunrise

today

~Marie C Lecrivain

up there

the grimacing chimera

of the church

là-haut

la chimère grimaçante

de l’église

~Marie Derley

limescale the thought of you e r o d i n g 

~Katherine E Winnick

The Transit of

Venus — a slowed-

 

down version of

Waiting for Godot.

~Mark Young

no more waiting for Godot

~Belinda Behne

The Age of Misrule every day is April Fools

~dan smith

that butterfly, that now

~dan smith

zero gravity

the hourglass sand

stops flowing

~John J. Dunphy

AARP asked 

why I cancelled auto pay

for my late aunt’s bill

~James Penha 

Lurching from one disaster 

to another, all

of his own making.
 

~Jeffrey Taylor

my father's dog tags

peace 

is a utopia

~M. R. Pelletier 

Old women selling eggs

The quiet wisdom

In everyday life

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Insomnia

I cannot dream

so I write poetry

~Noah Berlatsky

surgery scar . . . 

the tideline's cursive

changing alphabets

~Nicholas Klacsanzky

milestones
the fabled end

of a rainbow

~Joanna Ashwell

surveying my teashop

the swallows won't return

to build their nests

~Tejendra Sherchan 

(fr)agile moon
(b)light

on my feet

~Joshua St. Claire

daffodils

Cadbury eggs

first signs of spring

~Jennifer Gurney

Finally we came to know    

Finally we came to know that 

we are naked.

Thank you, Mr. President.

~Partha Sarkar 

under lamplight

not confessing to anything

the unmoving fly

~Albert Schlaht

trick candles
on my birthday cake

I wasn’t born yesterday

~Herb Tate