Afternoon of September 14, 2026

 

releasing itself

the butterfly in my throat 

~Marjorie Pezzoli

The ever-changing flight plan of the clouded sulphur butterfly

~Patrick Sweeney

The reporter's asking the wrong people

if there were any warning signs 

~Patrick Sweeney

The missing sock was found only after the house was condemned and demolished,

leaving the nebby neighbor to contemplate the previous owner's 

one barefooted hop into paradise

~Patrick Sweeney

People kept telling him he matched the description of the man reported missing 

~Patrick Sweeney

Under the susurration of mimosas, this is no time to mispronounce the names of the gods

~Patrick Sweeney

Searching for the emergency exit in her eyes

~Patrick Sweeney

She made her diagnosis after watching him dance

~Patrick Sweeney

I don't have time to

not have time for

the time I don't

have

~Noah Berlatsky

main character syndrome

you weren't even

the main character

in your own life let

alone mine.

~linda m. crate

i wanted to sleep in the library

knew there i would find peace

not arguments.

~linda m. crate

oblivious

to what I am thinking

a crow

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

at the zoo

two monkeys watch

a boy picking his nose

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

russets

a worm burrows

to the core

~Melissa Dennison

head-butt

I apologise

to the wasp

~Melissa Dennison

Unfinished

like Duchamp's 

smashed glass

we bounce along

thinking about

what to do

instead of what

not to do

~dan smith

libran's sick day the horoscope confirms it

~Tejendra Sherchan

a quiet green bud

teaches patience without words

vegetation

the government agency 

sets fire

~Manasa Reddy Chichili / Uchechukwu Onyedikam

♪ ♪ ♪ And I Am Telling You . . .

you are not staying

this is my house, that is my door

find yourself outside of it

by the time I finish this song ♪ ♪ ♪

or else

~S. T. Eleu

a bee

bumped into a log

and then…

~Kamrun Nahar

living their unauthorized version bootleg tapes

~Peter Jastermsky

junk drawer

there's a life in here 

somewhere

~Peter Jastermsky

chips off the old block party

~Peter Jastermsky

fight or flight another bad bird app

~Peter Jastermsky

hoping for another dream my birth mother

~Stephen Toft

lonely becoming dusk

~Stephen Toft

red light district

out of the corner of my eye

a plastic jesus

~Stephen Toft

deep winter 

i make shadows 

on your wall

~Stephen Toft

midnight cars x-ray my body

~Stephen Toft

after the x-rays

CAT scans

MRIs

so much

for privacy

~Ed Bremson

little angels 

die 

on сhristmas trees

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

the word "God"

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

polarity holding the image antique camera


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

star fracture welcome to this mad chaos 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Red and Black Pear with Butterflies, Sunglasses and Black Bird

~dan smith