Afternoon of December 23, 2022


grandmother chair I overwinter

~Hemapriya Chellappan



with all my degrees failing the robot test

~Mona Bedi



dementia the comfort of not knowing

~Mona Bedi



Christmas carols —

this year's service

mostly delayed

~Amoolya Kamalnath



gift-wrapped box —

father doesn't bring

what i want

~Amoolya Kamalnath



having trouble sleeping on a full moon

~Nani Mariani



travel moon from here to where

~Hemapriya Chellappan


Afternoon of December 22, 2022

 

 

fur all hugged off

eyes in the button box, yet

i'll always love you


~Pat Geyer



thinking of ku even in the loo

~Sreenath



the people I don't get cards from anymore

~Patrick Sweeney



yuletide gathering winter fuel the flames of war

~Keith Evetts



digging too deep missing the point critics

~A.J. Anwar



    zig zagging kite

    /

slicing sky

~Rob McKinnon

 

 

morality police//cutting hair

~Rob McKinnon



slim wrists of

the matterhorn triplets

bathed with dew

~Richard Magahiz



midnight

suddenly awake from a dream where I am dead

~Ram Chandran