Afternoon of February 18, 2023

Every Minute

Every minute ends even

The fractured ones that

Fill up your little life.

~Dominik Slusarczyk

Resonances

Particles that exist for so little time

they're only recognized by the particles their decay

leaves behind.

~Noah Berlatsky

in and out —

she dips her beak

to sip yuzu

~Rupa Anand

death results may vary

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Bourbon cough

Lungs are booked up

With ulcers and cigarettes.

~K.G. Munro

sub zero night

the storm drops

a foot of snow

on top of

a foot of snow

~Christina Chin / M. R. Defibaugh

psychological

evaluation

itchy questions

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Pelicans

Awkwardly graceful

With their 9-foot wingspan and

Funny suitcase neck

~Jennifer Gurney

Evening of February 17, 2023

soliloquy talking to the demons from the other side

~Mona Bedi

new broom sweeping generalisations

~John Hawkhead

saying it as it is soothsayer

~Mona Bedi

big crunch

they wanted to try

a different universe

~John Pappas

at the seaside —

where does the sky

actually end?

~Ana Drobot

burying the dead weight of a pendulum

~John Hawkhead

under the Orion sky

the cat and I

in silence

~Françoise Maurice

bricked up windows I was young once too

~John Pappas

mayflies dying without religion

~John Hawkhead

tears that turned into stone silent rain

~Mona Bedi

 

 

migratory birds

lucky the ones who leave

or those who remain?

~Wai Mei Wong

 

Afternoon of February 13, 2023

first confessions

the priest sips brandy

from his thermos

~Bisshie

opening acrylics

I find myself in the middle

of a mandala

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

lovers

in fresh cut grass

the sting of red ants

~Sharon Ferrante

Forest of ribbons

hang from hundreds

of Valentine balloons

~Steve Van Allen

piecing together yesterday’s moth-eaten dreams

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

yesterday is fading — the traces all unwind

~Julie A. Dickson

hum(eow)an

~Lorelyn Arevalo

lip slur of a French horn

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Say quotes to each other instead of holes.

~Noah Berlatsky

hackers cooking up spam

~Sharon Ferrante

Braxton Hicks

the midwife brews

another cup of tea

~Bisshie

Afternoon of February 10, 2023

yet (another) bank seizure (dead)line app(roach)es

~Lorraine A Padden

diving deep into my fears water child

~Akhila Mohan

feeling incomplete quarter horse

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

churchandstate

~Lorraine A Padden

soapbox orator

 nodding in agreement

 the pigeons

~Wanda Amos

the puppet master

pulling

the strings

she ponders…

to go or stay

~Wanda Amos

How can a daisy tell

If he loves me or

Loves me not

~Jennifer Gurney

in this twilight

about longing and love

your shadow never disappears

~Nani Mariani

cries ignored

wolf wolf wolf

the wolf is us

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Against Expression

humidity forty-nine percent

unknown, unbroken

error message

~Noah Berlatsky

We were required

To wear dresses to school in

Michigan winters

So we tucked our

Skirts into snow pants for

The cold walk to school

~Jennifer Gurney