Afternoon of October 30, 2026

 

nuclear option

the country

a button away

~Peter Jastermsky

Feeling a rupture, dismissed as an illusion suddenly knowing a louder cacophony of silence realizing itself and managing the psyche in a shopping bag.
 
~John Vlachos

 

 

 

 

nothing matters till it does hospice moon

~Mona Bedi 

 

like a trolling stoner smoking moon

~dan smith

spoils 
of the moon
just beneath

~Roberta Beach Jacobson 

    

sunlight on the bay seems like nothing’s wrong 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

the wind leaves no letters

~Manasa Reddy

 

the splatter of her signature her hoops and loops

~Mark Gilbert

 

 

 

Isolation obviates
Solidarity
By suppressive prolepsis.

~Frank Conahan

 

 

writing war poems

for others

like it’s 1984

                                                                        ~Mark Gilbert

 

 

 

From an Akkadian Fragment

this bread for us is bitter

.....  ...... spiral staircase [ ? ] ..... difficult

to descend .........  .... almost impossible

...   ..  to ascend

this sun bleeds us ..... .. .....

knowledge ...  .....   ... [ untranslatable ]

......  ..... is interbred ....  .......

baked in the clay .......    ...... scribes 

dream the far ..... .... ....... horizons

our ..... .. .. ......... distant star       

~dan smith

 

 

seed, gourd, and mulch
ghosts of Halloween past
present and future

~Nicholas De Marino

 

coding me from afar
dead computer language

~Roberta Beach Jacobson 

 

 

papa don’t preach

riot     us

capi   toll

for 

whom

the 

bell

~Michael Harrington