Evening of June 24, 2026

Open all this month: Only Human Senryu

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Open through July 1: Kokako

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



Writer's block - 

my inner critic

never short of words

~Caroline Ridley-Duff




dark laughter

vultures hover over

the hospital

~Bob Carlton



 

dawn in

the sewer the

crazed rat

fidgets and

waits for

his chance at

what he

knows not

~Bob Carlton



 

he said something about the dangerous individualism of the wren

~Patrick Sweeney




with Ice at the door: would I calmly eat my pot-au-feu

like Labiche in "The Train'

~Patrick Sweeney




happy in our gravity: we agreed we'd be crushed on Jupiter

and dunking from the foul line on Mercury

~Patrick Sweeney


 

 

Box of ghosts

All those crooked photographs 

Ashes of youth 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello 




though he lightly touched on the ripple effects of 1096

people kept moving away from him

~Patrick Sweeney



 

all I had to do was sit in the sun and count my freckles

~Patrick Sweeney




tracing my anxiety back to the Three Little Pigs

and a possible flaw in the mathematics of revolving doors

~Patrick Sweeney




the bin

filled to the brim again

this eternal fuss over

who takes out the trash

~Jackie Chou



 

exasperated 

in a long bus ride

I lose track

of what I want in life

~Jackie Chou




I've been in the middle of nowhere before

~Patrick Sweeney



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