Afternoon of November 11, 2026

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

 

vulnerability just a chunk in my chowder

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

 

 

 

microscopic faith

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

 

chronic conditions right for flying

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

  

                                             Curtain Call

                            ~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

when I was just a grub
beneath the lawn
we hummed the words

~Randy Brooks

 

 

                       Bedrock

 

                red stain of pain

                     no myth

          the Phoenix's struggle

                                                ~Joshua Burnside

 

 

 

First

 

came

the warp

& then — woof!

~Mark Young

 

 

 

 

 Jekyll & Hyde

This is not     who I am.

I am not what you see.

~Mark Young

 

 

 

 

Hemingway was right

we are strong

in all the broken places

~Jennifer Gurney

in the stillness

so much action

off stage

~Jennifer Gurney

 

 

 

 arachnids 
on the glass, alas

~Mark Young

 

 

 

THE ACCIDENT OF LIFE

 

In the accident

that we call life,

I'm the fall down

a manhole,

you're the trip

on a stone.

Our life together

is testament

to the failure

to recover on our own.

~John Grey

 

 

 

 Misreading Richard Siken

Raphael was trying to say something about

yellows.

~Noah Berlatsky

  

 

  

SLEEPING ON THE TRAIN

 

Fell asleep in Minneapolis,

awoke in Rugby, North Dakota.

Never in my life,

have I missed so much geography.

~John Grey  

 

 

 

I’ve never seen a mole hill

just lots of mountains and 

a few dead moles

~Ed Bremson, MFA

 

 

 

cocktail hour
the smell
of molotov

~Jiel Narvekar