Afternoon of October 26, 2026

  

  

 

murder mischief crows stain the trees black 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

house of cards someone used Velcro

~Cynthia Anderson

 

border crossing no one deserves this

~Cynthia Anderson

 

lukewarm coffee illusion of moonlight moving through windows

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

giving the hairy eyeball wary coyote

~Cynthia Anderson 

 

 

the empty sockets
behind the bisque face—
closed lips scream

~Patricia Carragon

 

perfect teeth

on the dentist's 

jack o'lantern

~John J. Dunphy

 

 

discarded pumpkin an audience of squirrels

~Roberta Beach Jacobson 

 

 

A self-identifying Leonard Cohen fan—talked about the woman swallowed by the sea

~Patrick Sweeney

They only heard the words he mispronounced

~Patrick Sweeney

The security guard is yawning and checking his watch—I've already drawn up my legs from the crime scene

~Patrick Sweeney

autumn equinox

a spider’s web

in the weaver’s loom

~Alvin B. Cruz

 

 

 

autumn leaves

his hospice bracelet

loosens

~Alvin B. Cruz

 

 

If only their nonsense was their onlyness, a little bit of indescribable stupidity that persuades fools and idiots, that trips over mistakes and redundant meanings.

~John Vlachos

 

Absence of individualism is retrofitted, interrupted, talking nonsense as if it were an anthem for anteaters and tortoises. 

~John Vlachos

 

political pumpkins the stink

~Roberta Beach Jacobson 

 

 

glass flowers under sparse moonlight all these years wasted

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

 

 

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