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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Afternoon of February 17, 2026

 

sake just for the sake of sake

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

I don’t want roses

or even chocolates

I want justice

~Jennifer Gurney

Grocery trip

The high price

Of coffee comfort

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

poems are like cats

they crawl on you and

vomit right on your lap

~Noah Berlatsky

morning news

I take another

shower

~Anne Fox

Neanderthal

three percent of me

extinct

~Anne Fox

stargazing

I think I see

Earth

~Anne Fox

the cost of love

a rose decays

in landfill

~Melissa Dennison

shadow boxing in the grass the madness of hares

~Melissa Dennison

wasting my time wondering why sparrows never try to catch snowflakes

on their tongues

~Patrick Sweeney

protest poetry :: even this


~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

mean girl testy-fies

~Mary Oishi

happy to just be here one-legged pigeon


~Bryan Rickert

a lung cloud my winter breathes

~Maya Daneva

oyster shell moon trying to swallow the ocean

~Maya Daneva

tilting your rain stick in the dialect of raindrops

~Maya Daneva

skeletal houses behind them skeletal houses

~Maya Daneva

the sinkhole widening this solitude

~Bryan Rickert

wind through leaves lost in translation


~Bryan Rickert

his resolution was to avoid plots that encourage vengeance

and the eating of more than one dark chocolate with sea salt and caramel

centers

~Patrick Sweeney

freezing rain...

the pale-purple knuckles on the backward claws

of the crow

~Patrick Sweeney

long night

i surrender

to light

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

Extraction

 

Protests. Layoffs. Bombing. Shelling. Shooting. Abduction.

uprooting

periwinkles for a black dahlia

one-way valve

~Mohua Maulik

Summer Vacation

I spent my summer vacation

teetering on the brink of starvation.

Lost in self-imposed isolation.

Crippled by surging inflation.

Mired in quiet contemplation,

I lamented the death of a Nation.

~Amy Grech

between two explosions

the gentle voice

of someone’s violin

~Maya Daneva

post-viral aphasia

the unladylike speech

inside my head

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

surveilled . . .

we saddle-staple ourselves

to the first amendment

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

where to hide

where to shout

where to cry

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

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Afternoon of February 12, 2026

Snowdrift

The last time you held my hand,

As we went down the sledding hill,

Fingers not quite intertwined,

Should have been the clue,

That you were leaving me,

For someone with a stronger grip

Of reality.

~Shawn Scott Smith

Each day is its own

failure, add them up

and down.


~Noah Berlatsky

dry month

surrendering to the boulders

a stream

~Tejendra Sherchan

the

steady

vibration

of grasshopper legs

is the perpetual love song

for Eos as she

dissolves night

into

dawn

~Marie C Lecrivain

TARDIS key

the timeslip

back into space

~Joanna Ashwell

dancing shoes the corner mouse slips inside

~Joanna Ashwell

moon bridge gathering all the fairy dust

~Joanna Ashwell

Crime

Crime always pranks by leaving evidence.

~Partha Sarkar

How

does one

learn to love

a scary monster?

That’s easy. Start by gazing

at your reflection

and repeat,

I love

you.

~Marie C Lecrivain

inspiration

love over hate

Bad Bunny

~Jennifer Gurney

sometimes

my favorite place to go

nowhere


~Jennifer Gurney

Someday I will learn how to perform

simple life tasks.

But not today.

~Noah Berlatsky

my catastrophic hypotheticals dismissed

we drove home on the rims

~Patrick Sweeney

sipping coffee

and simultaneously trying to process the news

of a fifty-car pile up

~Patrick Sweeney

easy, he says:

consult the fire scars on the cedar stump

before you were born

~Patrick Sweeney

snow fog

the place I was trying

to get to...

~Patrick Sweeney

admin should all take the Rorschach

and I've no doubt one of them

will brag he 'aced it'

~Patrick Sweeney