Afternoon of October 8, 2026

  

that's not a fly in your soup sir its a shark fin sea of cortez

~Melissa Dennison

weaving in and out

car after car

a crow plays chicken

~Melissa Dennison

brave new world

unsettled

by how the fibre optic

winks

~Melissa Dennison

Every goodbye a small winter


~Manasa Reddy

checkered past continues to flap via midnight memes

~Marjorie Pezzoli

out of weapons carrying their hearts into war

~Stephanie Zepherelli

late arrival

tucking in the edges

of my opinions

~Stephanie Zepherelli

 

sharp glances

a ringlet escapes

from her hijab

~Stephanie Zepherelli

all doors

festooned with cobwebs

nowhere to escape

~Tejendra Sherchan

 

vocal chords

too small for us to hear

a lettuce snail

~Randy Brooks

 

tech bro that manufactured persona

 ~Ian Willey

 

 

 

 

panda diplomacy bamboozling the public

~Ian Willey

250 years of freedom fighting
 

~Ian Willey

soaring kite

why are there always

strings attached?


 ~Ian Willey

Doom of choice

The impending doom was in fact my own

as the scrolling between us was oh so sweet -

Ring, ring. Damn. Reality calling.

~Joanne Macias 

learning anything now is a plus cuneiform

~Ruth Holzer

 

liquidating

 

the trust

mother's spidery signature

~Ruth Holzer

 

 

 

 

mussels in wine sauce what were they thinking of

~Ruth Holzer

 

thinking hard

about thinking

about nothing

~Ruth Holzer

                                        

What the

most of my paintings

don't come right out

and say it and the others

suppress it pretty well 

only a couple poems 

come close to laying it

on the line with some

euphemisms but you 

 

get the idea

~dan smith

tundra....

not sure

what to make of it

~M. R. Pelletier

good omens

morning snow

and ravens

talking

~Tom Blessing

america today

             our dreams have

                        become a prison

~Tom Blessing