Evening of March 2, 2026

 

 

gunshots in the night

the street lamps illuminate

nothing

~M. R. Pelletier

Calm reflections

Stillness matters

In all this noise

 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

the reaper

seeks profit

from rubble

~Patricia Carragon

Welcome

Welcome to rubble after war-

the land of fairytales.

~Partha Sarkar

harvest

a swollen coastline

spilling the sea

 

~Gareth Nurden

thawing morning

gurgling air

in the pipes

~Gareth Nurden

an unfamiliar bird

searching for scraps

sharp frost

~Gareth Nurden

Stepping out

Two sides

Of the comfort zone

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Cafe au lait

Reflecting

Her happiness

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

desert trek

digesting how to be

a cactus

~Bipasha Majumder (De)

smooth sailing the sand catches the wind

~Katherine E. Winnick

Spasms

are back

in my hands,

spine, pins

& needles

haystacked

against me.

~Keith Snow

every year dandelions bloom

every year the old man sprays

every year dandelions bloom

~Albert Schlaht

the gods

mustn't be too hungry . . .

half moon

~Albert Schlaht

 

 

 

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Afternoon of February 28, 2026

 

 

 

another war deadnaming countries

 

~Scott Wiggerman

the constant beep-beep of reverse development

 

~Scott Wiggerman

locomotive wind

in my tracks

chugging through

~Scott Wiggerman

gale force winds

airborne tumbleweeds

go nuclear

~Scott Wiggerman

a / random fact / a six-word story

 

Ferrets are highly susceptible to botulism.

 

~Mark Young

Ellipsis

 

Enough ranting &

raving. I shall

 

settle back into

my normal rôle as

 

the dutiful daughter

of immigrant parents.

~Mark Young

Doodle

 

To play the

part. To play

all the parts.

Set a part

to play. Apart.

~Mark Young

Thanksgiving

 

Sometimes

the question

is a tur(n)key.

Sometimes

the answer

is cranberry sauce.

~Mark Young

revered as a God

on the side of a market

a boulder

~Tejendra Sherchan

they claim

thirty spoons of spider silk

may wrap the entire earth...

after all

what can't an evil do?

~Tejendra Sherchan

frosty night

the warmth of falling

in her love

 

~Tejendra Sherchan

moon path

frog without water

 

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

Night savoring

Blackberry ginger tea

Black moonlight 

 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

quantum-based school

our class's 20-year reunion

followed by our graduation

 

~John J. Dunphy

sidewalk chalk sutra

pavement bends

toward nirvana

~Richard Magahiz

squatting beside

the grade school

gunmetal SUVs

~Richard Magahiz

for your

petrified remains

a snake-etched copper box

~Richard Magahiz

a soft spot for sagging porches

~Patrick Sweeney

snowflake demanding my undivided attention

~Patrick Sweeney

the heart-breaking genius of the snow globe

~Patrick Sweeney

On Reading Leonard Cohen’s The Flame

 

I am guided by your beauty

to a page I don’t recall

Is it meaning? Is it duty?

I don’t know—

the print’s too small.

~Noah Berlatsky

banned books

on a slow train

left behind

 

~Sherry Reniker

Confession

 

She reads the classifieds, he reads

Shakespeare. Others read King, Plath,

Grisham, de Sade, Ginsberg, Craigslist,

bios, horoscopes, lyrics, etc.

I read my own work and am damn

proud of it too. After all I’m my

biggest critic and my greatest fan. ;)

~Scott C. Holstad

 

 

Afternoon of February 23, 2026

 

 

 

the best part of waking up

is going back to sleep

~Noah Berlatsky

snowflake -

in child’s memory

a white tutu

~Maria Cristina Pulvirenti

out-sizing my content dog

~Tejendra Sherchan

daydreams the hypertext of sunflowers

~John Pappas

year in review of one revolting development

~Michael Henry Lee

conflicting conflicts wars in the crosshairs

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

if only the world

could give up misogyny

Lent

~Jennifer Gurney

he's the kind of guy who says, 'listen to you'

when he's talking to himself

~Patrick Sweeney

tumbleweed

the direction headed

after watching nightly news

~Douglas J. Lanzo

a bottle held

in mismatched gloves

deep winter

~John Pappas

year’s end

I clear my throat in

an empty room

~John Pappas

andromeda paradox

digging deeper into my

now

~John Pappas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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