Afternoon of June 2, 2026

 




Open through June: Half Day Moon Journal

https://www.josephsalvatoreaversano.com/hdmj-submission-guidelines


 

 

Big Bang Theory:

popcorn blows the lid

off the pot

~Barrie Levine




justice just us

~John J. Dunphy




unpredictable

hopping

history

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad




          A

JUST    MOUNTAIN


This is

This is not

This is not a

This is not a mole

This is not a molehill

~Peter Jastermsky



sting operation

the mosquitoes

act with impunity


~Bonnie J. Scherer




pummeled by wind-borne objects

I ride the all-weather deck

to kingdom come


~Bonnie J. Scherer




too tired

to hate you

hoverfly

~Joshua St. Claire





my iPhone suggests

a moon emoji

summer solstice

~Joshua St. Claire

 

 


quantum effects become significant boardroom


~Joshua St. Claire



 

behind the plate glass window verbless world


~Joshua St. Claire




all that remains of somewhere contrails

~Joshua St. Claire




murky dusk the raven tickling the demons within 

~Hifsa Ashraf  



night terror the strobe lights puzzling my aura 

~Hifsa Ashraf




winter coughs spreading urban foxes 

~John Hawkhead



 

Ψ crows’ feet casting runes in snow Ψ   

~John Hawkhead




paper scraps—

one corner earmarked

~Elliot Diamond




banana, weep --

you, the work

of transcendence

~Richard Magahiz 




feather 

over a gutter stream 

trying to keep dry

~Tejendra Sherchan 

 

 

 

Open for submissions this month: Prune Juice

https://prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/




Open all of June: Kokako Journal

https://kokako10.wordpress.com/submissions/

 



that feeling

in the first part of a good book

when the characters become your friends

~Jennifer Gurney




light but love revealed

darkness but love lost

constant birth and death

a universe

~dan smith




The Memory of Africa 


Baobab trees

on the veld - the memory 

of Africa 



elephants' 

encyclopedic 

memories 



linking trunks 

bridging the divide

we're all Africans

~Olinda Ninolakis




Dallas, Texas

a busy avenue…

the colorblind

tarantula

does not cross at the light

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky




after that bit about the Equator and the imaginary line 

I figured the rest was hooey, too

~Patrick Sweeney




please tell me you're not still searching for Shambala

~Patrick Sweeney




the nature poet goes to the edge of the porch

and back again

~Patrick Sweeney



she wasn't the first person to suggest I put things in alphabetical order

~Patrick Sweeney

 



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Open for submissions: Haiku Girl Summer

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