Evening of September 25, 2026

 

helium-rich breath 

into the eyes of 

the fire beast

~Richard Magahiz

 

 

 

 

old freaking pond   

at the bottom  

there were quasars   

~Richard Magahiz

to relearn the breath,    imbibe null space     

 

~Richard Magahiz

 

 

sliding scale wearing motley 

~Jerome Berglund 

 

 

blood stained 

bingo card

~Jerome Berglund

 

 

smart people 

are going to figure it out 

and then what

~Jerome Berglund

 

Netflix now

bullies back

on the news

~Biswajit Mishra

 

 

 

pedestrian crossing

all eyes

on cellphones

~Biswajit Mishra

winding road —

gauging the blind spots

of our second marriage

~Debarati Sen

cinnamon cat, orange eyed

meowing autumn

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

 

 

Zeitgeist

 

 

Tick.

Tick.

Tock.

Now.

No.

Next.

~Leonard Zinovyev 

 

 

 

Post-Dream

 

 

hope dies

at seven a. m.

 

~Leonard Zinovyev

 

 

 

 

The Geologist's Diary

granite

remembers 

the weight 

of the sky

~Leonard Zinovyev

 

 

 

on the way back home the lightness of my backpack

~Bipasha Majumder (De)

 

 

 

 

becoming a wildflower eternity

~Tejendra Sherchan

 

 

 

climate change
a short in the wiring
of landlocked birds

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

stockpiles 

we stack our prayers

by expiration date

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

escalation
one last chance to bow 

to birdsong

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer  

 

 

endless war  

here and now

hear and know 

~Hifsa Ashraf