May Day
a new blossom on
my Christmas cactus
~John J. Dunphy
day done
I ride on the clouds
waving to Lucy
~Tejendra Sherchan
all night diner
spinning quarters
on the counter
~John Pappas
No players
All are at war.
No players to play chess.
~Partha Sarkar
junkyard
feral cat sleeps in
a child's car seat
~John J. Dunphy
Earth Day
child living at
our Moon Colony
celebrates a planet
she's never set foot on
~John J. Dunphy
Update
“Anyone can grow up
to be president”
now we know
you don’t even need
to grow up
~David Oates
It Will All Come out in the Wash…
Dirty
laundry – red
hats, white sheets.
~Paul Szlosek
Countdown
I'm tired
in my marrow . . .
less than 1,000
days to go
~Kimberly Kuchar
the chill
inside the gothic cathedral
high summer
~Joseph P. Wechselberger
Impact
Wind rushes.
Skin cold.
Ripcord fails.
Earth approaches.
Impact.
~T. Morrow
Collective Optimism
Everybody believes
The world
Will not
End tomorrow
~Paul Szlosek
my cat corrects me
when she hears me say
I live alone
~Jennifer Gurney
loose tooth
the tongue keeps
checking
~Jacek Margolak
the wailing dog
some distant relative
with a spare key
~Steve Black
8 mm Fiction
A photo that graphs
One eighth of a second
Of distracted attention
Yesterday's product of
Tomorrow matter
Stirred suit of ambitions
Flushed out aroused provisions
Consequences of a shaken sequence
~Cesar Delgado
Poems Are Fictions
I'm looking at the ocean.
There isn't a boat on the ocean till
I put one there.
There it is. Do you see it?
~Peter Mladinic
All my enemies are doing well.
~Noah Berlatsky
self checkout I ask myself find everything okay?
~Mary Oishi
