Afternoon of August 16, 2022

 

dead starfish stinging body hairs

~Amoolya Kamalnath

equally silent

a spider with thicker legs

than normal

~Keith Evetts

unforgiveness

of cosmic rays

sea-monkeys

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

My First Acting Job

I was the rear end of a horse.

My best friend was the front.

A bigoted jockey whipped us.

Back then and to this day.

~Andrej Bilovsky

chocolate ants......the dilemma

~Keith Evetts

the sound of geese losing consciousness

~rs

little chicken

a hatchling scratches

a hole in the sky

~Kat Lehmann

cuckoo cuckoo

the poet responds

waka waka

~petro c.k.

crouching water tiger lily

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Evening of August 13, 2022

ghost town

the wind has

its own voice

~Vandana Parashar

tax returns not catching tarpon

~Keith Evetts

reptile house

boa constrictor

sleeping off lunch

 ~Mark Gilbert

Deadly
Desert comes with its native charms

cacti, ferns, dunes, vipers and moons

speak to the nomads

in old tongues

–inside, it is the Inland taipan for the soul!

~Sunil Sharma

deodorant

silence

deodorant

silence

~Mark Gilbert

castaways not washing armpits

~Keith Evetts

For Love Or (Rarely) Money
When rags that don’t pay,

Demur ‘steada publish house

Hold name writers like

Billy Collins, Charles Simic,

Lydia Davis – makes my day!

~Gerard Sarmat

fire apple an eagle eats my uterus

~Pippa Phillips

from a nightmare

I wake up

in someone else’s body

~Vandana Parashar

irrigation in the courts::litigation in the fields

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Morning of August 13, 2022

typhoon settling into an eerie clam

~Keith Evetts

let them eat a measure of wheat for a denarius

~Joshua St. Claire

a pack of fleas

on the statue's nose

Belle Arte School

~Mircea Moldovan

unburning the bridge the unspoken name

~Pippa Phillips

2 a.m. after too much coffee

Awake again all night

Wondering

Why?

~Beth Gulley

making space for the soft-spoken ballistics

~Kelly Moyer

across the ocean

pointing to the same star     *

fingertips meeting

~Kimberly Kuchar

stepping into mist a knight in rusty armor riding the moon

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

 

lunar halo

the substance

of a tulpa

~Pippa Phillipa

drawstring bag of celestial tricks

~Roberta Beach Jacobson