monsoon rain
a sparrow on a powerline
owns
all of it
~Tejendra Sherchan
late
sunflower ~
i remember the ocean
before the frost
~katharine love
Star of Peace
Star of Peace!
Let
the midnight come.
~ Partha Sarkar
Breaking
bread getting to the bottom of things
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
I shouldn't have told my neighbor
about
the power I'm gaining from his silver maple tree
~Patrick Sweeney
his plan for today is to go to the edge of the forest
and
sit for another chickweed tutorial
~Patrick Sweeney
old
forest tangled within walls wild birdsong
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
midnight
ballerina her tassels
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
Longing
upon the page my story unwritten
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
When the Origami Smokes
The
moving of some intention to dry the ocean in your mouth so you can
speak and say,
Plantagenets
are sewn into the earth to make bread where peasants
loosen their
tongues and call it an inside out apostrophe,
The
laundry turns into doves and flies away as the laminated child breaks
apart like porcelain to my map of many planets.
~John Vlachos
she blinks . . .
some of the pain
slips
out
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
THE OPEN PLAN SYMPHONY
Eighty people are typing in unison
Everyone wears noise-canceling earphones
We send emojis to our neighbors
Nobody looks at the actual window
The sky outside is purely cosmetic
We breathe the recycled air deeply
I
am lonely in three dimensions
~Leonard Zinovyev
UPGRADE
I uploaded my mind to the cloud today,
But the "Terms and Conditions" forgot my face;
Now I wander the grid, like a viral ghost,
Reblogging
the silence of empty space.
~Leonard Zinovyev
Civil War battlefield
fresh hostilities break out between
partisan
tourists
~John J. Dunphy
my fingers weave
through her silver hair
i
search for lice
~Bernadette O'Reilly
COMMUTER'S LAMENT
We sit on the train, polite and discreet,
Eating Wi-Fi signals for our morning meal.
A stranger beside me just sprouted an eye,
And
we both double-tap to see if it's real.
~Leonard Zinovyev
THE ALGORITHM KNOWS ME
The Internet suggests a new jacket.
It matches my deep
existential dread.
The color is called "Corporate Void".
I bought it with one click.
The delivery drone arrived
before I ordered.
It dropped the box on my head.
It whispered
that
it loves me.
~Leonard Zinovyev
WIRELESS
The router blinked twice.
An uninvited ghost logged
into the Wi-Fi.
It changed the password
to
"boo".
~Leonard Zinovyev
Simple good life
Soup noodles
Leave
me wanting
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
a love match—
the IBAN code on the invitation card
in
lowercase
~Nicoletta Ignatti
Where to submit in August:
Kingfisher Journal
https://kingfisherjournal.com/submissions/
tinywords
https://tinywords.com/about/
Wales Haiku Journal
https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/submit
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