Afternoon of June 29, 2024

 

The Vanlifer

~Kelly Moyer 

Photography available here

wish I could download laundry print it out folded

~Keith Snow

he knew he was in trouble

when he began folding

his dirty laundry

~Patrick Sweeney

I need someone to scream out loud my thinking.

~James Penha

contemplate the moon

but don't let the neighbors see you

taking notes

~Patrick Sweeney

shoes

entirely superfluous

in summer

~Jennifer Gurney

From another era

 

We don't know exactly

the date of birth of Jesus Christ.

Perhaps he was born

a few years before Jesus Christ.

~Marie Derley

dirt streaked window

making broken patterns

rivers of obscured glass

~Rae Greenwood

becoming

a sidewalk toadstool

leapfrog

~Eavonka Ettinger

neighbor's incessant pounding headache

~Eavonka Ettinger

rotting mangoes

on a river bank—

smell still sweet

~Tejendra Sherchan

on a hushed mountaintop

I play a melodious music

a rhythm of dots, dash, & space

~Fhen M.

one night stand

up comic laid

off from his gig

~John J. Dunphy

pathless woods

this yearning

to discover myself

~Mona Bedi

filling my cup

with your absence

winter rain

~Mona Bedi

late night broadcasts the rustling understory

~John Pappas

creeping sepia becoming the unknown ancestor

~John Pappas

carrying with me the parts of me i wanted to leave behind

~Mona Bedi

Whiskey dogs in the scullery

Goose girls who keep fires lit

And go to and fro bearing wash

And children

Beyond is a carriage

Whose lantern burns

The color of absinthe

Horses bear it further Manes thick

With luminous flies and their

Hooves echo the Thunder of creation

~Joe Pagano

house steps

a vase of Calla Lilies

buried in the dust

~Tejendra Sherchan

then nothing

 

time goes by

and we go with it

in fifty years we won't be here

or in what condition

flowers that will bloom a few times

and then what?

~Marie Derley

bring me my horoscope and a Geiger counter

~Patrick Sweeney

she said: the quasi-scientific names of pharmaceutical products are only bothering you

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

Afternoon of June 27, 2024

 

the seventh galaxy...

so the first six just

not good enough?

~Richard Magahiz

neosilk rubbed

wormholes spill out

through her fingers

~Richard Magahiz

with each tiptoe    another crater

~Richard Magahiz

On Top?

 

Stand on top of the rock

that mimics a fossilized

cow patty dropped

by a Neanderthal bovine.

 

Makes you look like

a come-to-the-party-

too-late fly wandering

on sun-baked manure.

~Diane Webster

reading Lovecraft

to the carnivorous plants

I'm touched

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

risk assessment

funding cut for

asteroid watch

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

I wake to find

black hoofprints on your back

nightmare?

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

the dinosaurs

no more toilet paper

on the shelves

~Randy Brooks

curling her hair

straight

frozen orange juice cans

~Randy Brooks

fox not going anywhere

outside

the eagle’s stomach

~Randy Brooks

Together In Alone

 

The solitary woman walks

down the only dirt road

in and out from land

occupied by a lone

tree seen for miles.

~Diane Webster

Toward Point

 

Sharp triangle of light

slices through the darkness

on street level where

one human silhouette

 

drags its shadow

toward the apex point

separating, joining

day to night merge,

submerge silhouette.

~Diane Webster

old clay pitcher

still unfilled with night long

Monsoon rain

~Tejendra Sherchan

political argument

two buttheads

butt heads

~John J. Dunphy