Afternoon of May 23, 2026

 















Paper Fish

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




Life’s a garden 

So dig it

Sunlit sky

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 




midori cocktail 

the neon-green hue

of my alienness

~Jackie Chou




waxing crescent moon 

posting photos of myself 

at my thinnest 

~Jackie Chou




Song of Songs 

Singing with singing to other singing walks the song, or is it the here or is it the there who walks

and comes and thithers.

~John Vlachos




Pigeons and Condors

A precious mockery of some such ritual, when today suddenly disappears in the exclamations of

pigeons and the screeches of condors.

~John Vlachos



ferryman

the cost to cross

the blood-brain barrier

~Cynthia Anderson



séance

the deceased dictates

a Yelp review of

the funeral home

~John J. Dunphy




Memorial Day

a veteran

who survived combat

now dead

from suicide

~John J. Dunphy




sleepy village—

dawn light touches

a fading moon


~Subhash Roy Choudhury



shutter slit 

just enough

sun wakes me

~Maya Daneva




No Heights


Must be

T     H     I     S

brave

to enter country.

~Chad Parenteau




butterfly wings

so fragile

our democracy

~Jan Stretch




meltwater

the trickle-down effect

of my pain 

~Kirsten Cliff Elliot




moonset fly-tipping my silent migraine

~Kirsten Cliff Elliot




Bach to the future the organist’s striped socks

~Cynthia Anderson




hitting the bottom of this small talk

~Maya Daneva




what this tulip hides first bee

~Maya Daneva




spring yoga the day is stretching out

~Maya Daneva




palm reading so tangled my lines

~Mona Iordan




moonshadows falling into new craters

~Patricia Hawkhead


 


under the covers scars that can’t be heard

~Patricia Hawkhead


 


sunset carving shadows in stone

~Patricia Hawkhead




rising up to swallow a star sickle moon

~Tejendra Sherchan 




stop killing each other for Pete's sake

~dan smith









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