Morning of June 8, 2026

  

Daredevil

#92

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

objects

in the bathroom mirror

much closer

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

 

Texas summer 

lizard people take off 

their masks 

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

belligerent planet—

a praying mantis devours

the lizard

~Tejendra Sherchan

razor’s edge

a stunning view 

of the afterlife

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

crisp crumbs

her midnight quest

for meaning

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

warfare

a repair ticket 

on the Doomsday Clock

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

shadows in the valley the phenomenology of grief

~John Pappas

as yellow as never the bone ache of silence

~John Pappas

party games

the swish and sway

of a housefly

~Joanna Ashwell

zodiac club

locking horns

with a ram

~Joanna Ashwell

their prayers

evaporate in the air

Greek mountain

~Marie Derley

old dock

she whispers 

in the waves

~Tucker Poikonen

  

 

 

Morning of June 4, 2026

 

And?

~dan smith 

war games

the AI 

is our Captain 

~M. R. Pelletier 

away from home

can I find different poetry?

alas, I carry the same sack

~Noah Berlatsky

Now that the poetry

reading is over, I can

go & get a haircut.

~Mark Young

many promises broken yet we vote

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

A person gets up early

to cast a vote

then has to return to bed

to have a good day. 

~Partha Sarkar

Turntable jazz

Wrapping around the night 

Satin silk

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

silence I bite my mother tongue

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

Afternoon of June 2, 2026

 

Open through June: Half Day Moon Journal

https://www.josephsalvatoreaversano.com/hdmj-submission-guidelines

 

 

Big Bang Theory:

popcorn blows the lid

off the pot

~Barrie Levine

justice just us

~John J. Dunphy

unpredictable

hopping

history

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

          A

JUST    MOUNTAIN

This is

This is not

This is not a

This is not a mole

This is not a molehill

~Peter Jastermsky

sting operation

the mosquitoes

act with impunity


~Bonnie J. Scherer

pummeled by wind-borne objects

I ride the all-weather deck

to kingdom come


~Bonnie J. Scherer

too tired

to hate you

hoverfly

~Joshua St. Claire

my iPhone suggests

a moon emoji

summer solstice

~Joshua St. Claire

 

 

quantum effects become significant boardroom


~Joshua St. Claire

 

behind the plate glass window verbless world


~Joshua St. Claire

all that remains of somewhere contrails

~Joshua St. Claire

murky dusk the raven tickling the demons within 

~Hifsa Ashraf  

night terror the strobe lights puzzling my aura 

~Hifsa Ashraf

winter coughs spreading urban foxes 

~John Hawkhead

 

Ψ crows’ feet casting runes in snow Ψ   

~John Hawkhead

paper scraps—

one corner earmarked

~Elliot Diamond

banana, weep --

you, the work

of transcendence

~Richard Magahiz 

feather 

over a gutter stream 

trying to keep dry

~Tejendra Sherchan 

 

 

 

Open for submissions this month: Prune Juice

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Open all of June: Kokako Journal

https://kokako10.wordpress.com/submissions/

 

that feeling

in the first part of a good book

when the characters become your friends

~Jennifer Gurney

light but love revealed

darkness but love lost

constant birth and death

a universe

~dan smith

The Memory of Africa 

Baobab trees

on the veld - the memory 

of Africa 

elephants' 

encyclopedic 

memories 

linking trunks 

bridging the divide

we're all Africans

~Olinda Ninolakis

Dallas, Texas

a busy avenue…

the colorblind

tarantula

does not cross at the light

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky

after that bit about the Equator and the imaginary line 

I figured the rest was hooey, too

~Patrick Sweeney

please tell me you're not still searching for Shambala

~Patrick Sweeney

the nature poet goes to the edge of the porch

and back again

~Patrick Sweeney

she wasn't the first person to suggest I put things in alphabetical order

~Patrick Sweeney

 

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Open for submissions: Haiku Girl Summer

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