Afternoon of November 8, 2026

leaf peeping— the owl on the fence battery operated ~Adele Evershed road kill— a Do Not Enter sign in a crow’s eye ~Adele Evershed   summer,  beetles trace their language  on unsuspecting logs ~Kai Grenham     past emergez re relentlesz exekut1ve zearch query - Red0ubLed konf1dent1aL leaderch!P zpace warPhare dekonfL1kt10n SWEZ <0-sh1t!> EWEZ, zpace [attack]  debr1z on Ph1re, rePherr1ng exekut1ve past – hay, 1 d0/d1d nPt pr0l1Pherat10n, not zpace n am dead/Ret1red anywaze n just a writer so wtf? ~Scott C. Holstad

This is not even

a good attempt at a

sonnet.

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

 

 

a verse

driven by pathetic license 

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

 

 

  

Wave-lines of meandering streams—torrents of broken houses;

Einstein's tea leaves settling

~Patrick Sweeney

Reunion— simultaneous incredulous googling

~Patrick Sweeney

 

mind’s stated-x 

 

mind’s state - 

                        stated minds

red expressions,

                        bloody well frozen

but as for time…

                            ~Scott C. Holstad

 

There's no stopping the exceptions to the rule

~Patrick Sweeney

I fell under the influence of an uncoiling cloud

in a sky so blue, it had to be a cartoon 

~Patrick Sweeney

Job Gobbler


AI code is reinventing Labor
And build for us
A choice:

Expand or minimize our minds
Waxing sameness and bell curves
May drive our lives
pelted with homogenized reiteration slop and misinformation
A spawned distrust
Labor becomes days of rest
forced sloth or voluntary reinvention

~Gregg Dotoli

 

deep inside tears ghost moon surrenders 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

mirror reflection of myself faces of the moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

 

 

 

I'm beginning to think we're going to be coughing for the rest of our lives

~Patrick Sweeney 

 

 

 

 

 Joyfully Wondrous (monthly zine)

 

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