Afternoon of July 26, 2026


the writer's diagnosis

his life enters

its final chapter

~John J. Dunphy

 

 


bookmarked the pages where i grew up

~Mona Bedi

 



*Mitch*


Your 

obstructions 

are being

obstructed 

to death.

~Noah Berlatsky




divorce

wife awarded 

both burial plots

~John J. Dunphy




armed

with nothing but a bassoon

she fires

a single note

at the Ghost of Christmas Past

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




moths 

forever never ever

butterflies


~Myron Arnold




Only the cockroaches


Only the cockroaches make democracy perfect. 

~ Partha Sarkar






The waves are crashing into the shore

and receding

leaving behind dark pools

which slowly crawl towards the ocean

as if was its shadow

shrinking behind the tide

following and cowering,

drowning under foamy bubbles

and in the bellies of

barren fish.


~Abdullah Bin Imran


 


waves lap

at the rusting

ruins

salt encrusted

skyscrapers

~Melissa Dennison



 

another

ship of migrants

turned around

the cost

of air

~Melissa Dennison




after wind

grass

one way

~Elliot Diamond




Instructions


Water

the silence

until it

grows

birds.

~Ismail Adekunle Hassan




Inventory


One moon.

Two pockets.

Neither

holding

what I came for.


~Ismail Adekunle Hassan




Ourselves 


Always in a forgotten place, next to a maybe of an almost, striding in great

halls, to be replaced, a discarded piece of memory shivering in the cold. 


~John Vlachos

 

 

 

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