Afternoon of October 11, 2026

Front Yard Pair

~Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

 

total eclipse
neon fish
blink out

~Elliot Diamond

 

 

 

a cat on your chest

keeps the sleep in

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

glowing string lights

the night bird filling gaps

in our sentences

~Gareth Nurden

 

 

 

the aftermath

of gender violence 

crushed pomegranate

~Rupa Anand

 

 

another season passes

and still 

unfulfilled 

the promise

of a ceasefire

~Belinda Behne

 

 

Kitty would rather scratch me

than sit on me. Poetry

is for scratching wounds.

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

 

designer pugs
on urban streets—
dogs will be dogs

~Patricia Carragon

 

 

Eventually 

Three aged persons snore in a small cot in a slum.

Eventually the globe becomes smaller. 

~Partha Sarkar

 

 

 

 

learning spanish
I overhear
a stranger’s dream

~Soumya Mukherjee

 

 

 

 

strictly in the utilitarian sense exosphere

~Vishal Prabhu 

 

 

annoying change but not irrelevant shadowed circle moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

breath shortening the path to eternity

~John Hawkhead

 

 

 

 

neutron bomb not taking a side

~John Hawkhead

 

 

 

false positive pockets full of air bouncing peace treaties

~Biswajit Mishra

 

 

filigree moon night turns softer satin edge of what if

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

Russian Doll misses Trojan Horse 

~Elena Shakhnovsky

deep inside the forest the forest

~Rupa Anand

 

 

 

 

 

birds like ghosts things bound to get better sienna sunsets

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

 

Banana Leaf Empire

~Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo