Afternoon of November 6, 2026

 

 

famine
I eat 
the moon 
~Tejendra Sherchan

lotus root soup

a thousand holes

gaping at me

~Jackie Chou

 

anxiety therapy

the squeak of a marker

on the whiteboard

~Jackie Chou

zoom meeting 

she denies taking up

all my bandwidth 

~Jackie Chou

  

daily bread
the punctuality
of an absence 

~Oscar Luparia

sipping coffee
the poem
brewing 

~Elliot Diamond

 

 

Nikola Tesla in love with a pigeon 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

 

 

he talked of Lovecraft she heard romance

~dan smith

loneliness of days humming refrigerator

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

after Mendelssohn

poems without words

~Roberta Beach Jacobson 

Skeltonics
the mockingbird’s best
jackhammer

~Joshua St. Claire 

 

 

 

the day
I shut my mouth for good
white hydrangeas

~Joshua St. Claire

Bashō’s moon
grasping for my spectacles
in the dark

~Joshua St. Claire

 

 

the VP's smile

bends the fluorescent light
Faust

~Joshua St. Claire

 

 

 

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