Morning of April 19, 2023

half-asleep

you visit the shrink

in fifty minutes

you emerge

half-awake

~Ruth Holzer

volcanic uplift a clean train

~Jerome Berglund

hiding what the scale says my fat furry slippers

~Ruth Holzer

Scandinavia chain of evidence

~Jerome Berglund

the long con tortoise shell glasses

~Jerome Berglund

yes the flea

had second thoughts about

biting her

yet in the end he bit

her on her end (the end)

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

before the wildflowers

i am only

a shadow

~Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

meme template

infinitely replicatable

hooded sweatshirt

~Jerome Berglund

cultural competence

a breeze blows

the trenchcoat open

~Kelly Moyer

and then i turned to him and said

listen to the highway

it sounds like death

~Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

I never thought

I'd be taking a little

yellow pill

on every occasion

but there it is

~Ruth Holzer

carrying memories

wrapped in a white sheet

the hearse car

~Debarati Sen

insomnia

I count

dead people

~Ruth Holzer

Evening of April 18, 2023

gym argument

we fail to work out

our differences

~Andrew Markowski

I want a wall

all I receive

is a beaded curtain

~Richard Bailly

dementia —

last summer was

twenty years ago

~Debarati Sen

swallowing my words a black hole

~Kimberly Kuchar

nightfall a conversation without speech

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

I (nuclear) solemnly (Armageddon) swear

~Lee Hudspeth

denied parole

an inmate breaks out

into tears

~Andrew Markowski

 

fossils

a final impression

fuels the end of time

~Robert Witmer

gun law

the right to bear

others’ pain

~Robert Witmer