Afternoon of June 12, 2026

 


bus stop

rain chooses

one shoulder


~Elliot Diamond




unsubscribe and they send one more


~David Liu




single-cell organism // all of us


~Nicholas De Marino



 

quiet pond, a frog breaks the moon.

~Manasa Reddy Chichili



 

nowhere to go orphan moon


~Mona Bedi




love is a room with plastic flowers

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




the revolution will not be televised

but it will be filmed and uploaded

to Facebook

~Jennifer Gurney

 


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