Evening of August 23, 2026

   

There’s Nothing I Don’t Know



Because


I can’t know

What I don’t

Till I already do

~J Maurer

fresh new morning orange blossoms can’t disguise the truth 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

everyone has dirty laundry the broken streetlight flickers 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

we the people cyclospora

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

misbehaving stray 

loiterers at my teashop

perhaps the reincarnation 

of my late daughter 

~Tejendra Sherchan 

Some News Is No News



Chinese robot beats

Usain Bolt’s world sprint record…

so does my old car

~James Penha

Before I go out,

check the news.

Active shooter

at the mall?


~Jeffrey L. Taylor

 

 

 

righteous war

giving Christian names

to rape and murder

~John Hawkhead

 

 

no resolutions

starting the new year

with the same war

~John Hawkhead

Without a Thought

 

The thinker and the thoughts they think

both inhabit the same platonic form

 

In fact, the thinker is one of the thoughts they think

Same as the sculptor is the sculpture they sculpt

Same as the fish is the water it swims in

Same as the bird is the air it flies through

 

~J Maurer

Evening of August 20, 2026

 

anything you say think can and will be used against you

~Barrie Levine

nautilus shell

shaped by the waves

my third ear


~Ron Scully

sand fleas

looking for some shade

to touch down

~Ron Scully

bangingmyheadagainstthewall a love story 

~Stephanie Zepherelli

causing a flap 

boxes opened 

upside down

~Stephanie Zepherelli

a map of everything 

she has survived 

grandma’s face

~Stephanie Zepherelli

electric city sounds

car alarm

cicadas

~Noah Berlatsky

moonlight glints from a lonely pagoda our secrets linger 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

how is it the piece of sky fits the hole in the jigsaw's stormy sea

~Ron Scully

his disjunctions had nothing to do with Gendai haiku

~Patrick Sweeney

Five Great Dialogues of Plato...

I'm still in my underwear

in the middle of the day

~Patrick Sweeney

he left a gaping exit wound

~dan smith

counting sheep the wicked never rest

~dan smith

shooting stars — the ballet of satellites

~Francoise Maurice

literary critic

a negative review for the book

he didn't finish

~John J. Dunphy

Afternoon of August 16, 2026

  

error 404 —

the bird’s nest

in the satellite dish

~Jacek Margolak

zoom call —

my cat’s tail

presenting

~Jacek Margolak

delivery notice —

the box

already empty

~Jacek Margolak

don't make me the punchline,

i'm not here to be your joke.

~linda m. crate 

i'm a moonflower

but the world only

remembers sunflowers.

~linda m. crate

don't miss me now

my ghost is meant

to haunt you.

~linda m. crate

 

waiting for sweetness candlelight reverberates mirrored surfaces

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

war plans another generation at risk

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

A moment is all we are flickering candle 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

 

decoys,

in shoes that don't fit

~Patrick Sweeney

once he thought he could figure out the whole shebang

and secretly, he still thought he might...

~Patrick Sweeney

A sky of dizzy stars everything colliding 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

he decided to spare them the martyrdom of his company

~Patrick Sweeney

still smoldering nests

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

the speech after the speech after another shooting

~Patrick Sweeney

all the world's 

a stage

recess

~Jennifer Gurney

to be

or not to be

hospice

~Jennifer Gurney