Afternoon of September 6, 2026

  

excising the tumour

a tulip bulb                              

lifted from earth

~Gavin Austin

 

 

 

intolerance flouncing in the drag of religion 

~Gavin Austin

 

 

stretching one foot into the morning headlines

~Gavin Austin

 

bridging

the divide                                

Frida’s brow

~Gavin Austin

 

the bourbon bottle trying to put yesterday back 

~Gavin Austin

Mosquitoes

 

Little drops of my blood

flit around the yard.

~Noah Berlatsky

The United States of Decline

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

After eating an apple and it turns to dust in your mouth.

~John Vlachos

cutting vegetables beauty in the beet 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

dead snail in my kitchen 

I didn’t  ask for its delicacy

~Tejendra Sherchan

just spell

my name right 

in blood 

~Jerome Berglund

 

 

lee side 

never 

a whydunnit 

~Jerome Berglund

 

 

this benefit 

of the doubt 

if applied it elsewhere…

~Jerome Berglund

fishing in the shadow

of nuclear power

no keepers

~Randy Brooks

 

Imperial Palace lagoon

the swans passing

a traffic jam

~Randy Brooks

 

temple bell clang—

the reclining buddha

can't stand

~Sherry Reniker

 

Punctuation 

Punctuation at my feet. I go nowhere.

~Partha Sarkar

 

 

 

stretches of time long journey of winding roads 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

    

 

 

 

 

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