Morning of April 10, 2026


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temple bells chime
a monkey finds
lice in its ear

~Soumya Mukherjee



turning into a scarecrow wet owl

~Tejendra Sherchan



Vanilla ice coffee
You told me to enjoy birds
Simple, sweet

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 



the gentle bleed
of daily news

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



The spectre of a vet looms large and threatens
The existence of the wily indestructible flea
Oh I know my time is up I just want blood me
Vampires in films get much more screen time
But the Ctenocephalides felis hogs the Front Line

~Olinda Ninolakis



Lifeboat:
my fragile suppositions
tossed overboard

~Patrick Sweeney



eight-clawed sparrows on the iodine wire

~Patrick Sweeney



it'll take more than borax to kill the eggs of these fleas

~Patrick Sweeney



yes, I walked into telephone poles and stop signs as a kid...
early indications of something or other

~Patrick Sweeney



stepping on and stretching up
a wad of parking-lot gum, again
the heat

~Patrick Sweeney



astronauts escaping Earth's atmosphere
on a broken toilet

~Patrick Sweeney



chalked palms
a climbing rope reaches
the highest rafter

~Randy Brooks

 

out loud noun
their silent modifier
such a quiet verb

~Randy Brooks
 

 
dorm room poster
hippies hold hands
into the woods

~Randy Brooks



Charlotte
tethered by friendship to the end
Wilbur

~Jennifer Gurney



one way 
universe converses with me
through dreams

~Tejendra Sherchan



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