Afternoon of July 21, 2026

  

Blueprints

I fed sparrows.

They returned

with architectural drawings.

~Travis Park




Museum of Air

Please do not touch

the empty spaces.

Some are original.

~Travis Park




Weather Returned

The umbrella

came home

with the wrong rain.

~Travis Park




Way Out

The exit

has been framed

as another exhibit.

~Travis Park




a colossus cat pushes everything

                                                         over

                                                          the

                                                         edge

                                                           flat

                                                          earth


~Kimberly Kuchar




You have no deaths 


Earnest dawn...yet you have no chirpings of your own.

productive midday...yet you have no sweat of your own. 

A gloomy lighthouse 

and no janitor to guide you. 


A suffocation 

and you choose the wrong route for the long march.  


Your own deaths float around you.

~Partha Sarkar





these days

instead of a concert or a club

we dance on

the paper-littered floor

by the recliners

~David Oates



August funeral

only the deceased wears

a coat and tie

~John J. Dunphy




unseasonal rain 

returning clouds fill

with malevolence

~John Hawkhead 


 


sweeping teashop 

more ants

than dust

~Tejendra Sherchan 




Refreshingly Unconcerned with the Vulgar Exigencies of Veracity


Fake news, fake tans, fake blues, fake views. 

Surrounded by a lack of Vulgar Veracity

Like a spaceship flies in an Iain M. Banks novel

Heads for the unknown without even a parachute 


Victors are losers, losers are winners, in the war

Sound bites and troglodyte hype from Tangerine Blob

News channels prevaricate as markets rise and fall 

Hormuz strait a concertina of woes a Mecca


As leaders blame each other remaining forever

Refreshingly Unconcerned with the Vulgar Exigencies of Veracity

~Olinda Ninolakis




Beyond Tacitus and Orwell 


they make deserts

and don't even bother 

to call it peace

~dan smith




street eatery

the stray obeys anything

a man asks him

~Tejendra Sherchan




The Dream of an Idiot 


A ruined epitome. 


That blast-less mind of simple mathematics to heal the wound of

someone’s sadness, 


to manipulate the twisted epithets and be the walk that someone walks, 


and be the words that someone speaks, breathing their breath and being

the tenderest moment when someone cries. 


~John Vlachos




singing bowls  there is great comedic potential here first date 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello 




convicted pervert the course of justice

~John Hawkhead

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