Afternoon of May 12, 2026

 

Welcome, Friend

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

One 

The very one who self becomes, a self of always, a that, a part of some moment in a

maybe….walks with his shadow holding hands.

~jon vlahos

The Little Agony

The little agony appeals, a screaming flower afraid in the wind, like tiny moments holding hands

to stay alive….bruised cheeks pulling up a smile that bleeds.

~jon vlahos

statue

wearing iron-framed glasses

with no glasses

~Tejendra Sherchan 

gas-lit tongues

lashing out

dark night

~Kavita Ratna

who goes on top 

settling it

in our grave

~John Hawkhead

war updates

numberless stars

born today

~Bipasha Majumder (De)

I must stop asking mathematicians

about the integer zero

~Patrick Sweeney

under authoritarian rule

he goes right on C-spiking the free radicals

~Patrick Sweeney

putting things inside other things

is one way to get through the day

~Patrick Sweeney

passing the second bookmark in my used copy of Catch-22

~Patrick Sweeney

the clipped nails of the fatalistic traveler

~Patrick Sweeney

tomato plant

tied to its stake by

mom's rosary

~John J. Dunphy

“no kings” rallies

250 years

after we first said it

~Douglas J. Lanzo

I've drunk the wine 

and the owl is quiet 

—empty page 

~Sharon Ferrante 

another day

not one haiku 

in my pond 

~Sharon Ferrante 

low on sage…

fifty monsters 

in the cabinet 

~Sharon Ferrante 

never say never mind

~Barrie Levine