Afternoon of June 18, 2026

 

 

 

common assault and battery life 

~John Hawkhead



 

memorandum of understanding nothing 

~John Hawkhead




cherry blossom 

fooling

nobody

~Stephen Toft




garden buddha

has moss

for hair


~Stephen Toft




In  a  Zen Garden


The gnomes 

all seem to dance.

I become a prayer.

The world a chalice.

The wounded sky

grows faint and Earth

but shadow of a scar.

~dan smith




feeling invisible

every piece of mail in my box

not for me

~Jennifer Gurney




the seeker of the origins of the Universe,

finished third on Jeopardy

~Patrick Sweeney




because they let him take long lunches

he never calls in sick at the drone factory

~Patrick Sweeney




studying the dorsal wing of a fly

he said: 'you always knew how to have fun'

~Patrick Sweeney




Secretive 


Ready stretch the tally of the years, ready beckon and tantalize, ready buy

with an open heart, a box to conceal, make or break the truth on the table

when your nerves are shot and moments are walking with crutches.

~John Vlachos




old graveyard 

something sprouts  

beneath the oaks
 

~Deborah Karl-Brandt




sea waves

lap the rocky cliffs

and rebound...

my heart finds its way

to AI love

~Tejendra Sherchan




Anxiety of Influence

 

Pound was a fascist ass;

Shelley a philandering jerk.

Yeats was a weird misogynist.

Ted Hughes was even worse.

 

Poe was racist. Stevens too.

Great poets white, male and dead—

away with them! I will live

and write doggerel instead.

~Noah Berlatsky




strangled my voice out back

at last it’s not me

talking

~Noah Berlatsky




she told me she saw

faces in the rock, but

she didn’t know if

they saw her

~Tom Blessing




M


You sleep around my sleep

because you dream of me

while I dream of you or

because the other way around or

because you went to sleep first

and woke up later.

~Noah Berlatsky




off grid

a snail goes

its own way

~Melissa Dennison




Tiredness 


Tiredness has no last chapter. 

~ Partha Sarkar

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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