Afternoon of June 4, 2023

Soon

we can stop

moving.

~Noah Berlatsky

poisonous beauty

red grapes ripen in her eyes

intoxicating

~Maria Quernel

the faded spot

of father’s nameplate

crumbling wall

~Arvinder Kaur

What is there to do

When my to-do list

Is done?

~Jennifer Gurney

The sun is shining

And yet it’s raining on me

Cognitive dissonance

~Jennifer Gurney

The birds are singing

To the opera wafting

Through my window

More have landed

And their songs rise and fall with

Pavarotti

~Jennifer Gurney

somewhere

under dying stars

Mayan secrets

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

I love the feeling

When the third line of a haiku

Clicks into place

~Jennifer Gurney

 

 

amidst the din of existence abendrot sky

~Arvinder Kaur

in the end

all our castles

turn to sand

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of June 3, 2023

insomnia —

smoking up

the moonlight

~Debarati Sen

your ankles swell    when the sap rises

~Rich Magahiz

take this mask    the Zen is thick today

~Rich Magahiz

Hail

That shreds just-planted flowers

Damn

~Jennifer Gurney

shower of fragments

brick wall sloughs off

time exfoliation

~Julie A. Dickson

steps

up a bronze sculpture

the wind chill

a negative number

of blossoms

~Christina Chin / M. R. Defibaugh

bakery

new employee focuses on

his roll model

~John J. Dunphy

drowning I slice seaweed with my invisible sword

~Sharon Ferrante

where the end is always near flash fiction

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

staying indoors with my writer’s block all day rain

~Mona Bedi

the itch to just

hit send and regret it

submission jitters

~A.J. Anwar

FEAR

crept in: not sure how.

Came silently like the snow;

like a virus on air.

Does not matter how--it's here,

fear, I know it well.

~Wayne F Burke

quicksilver

in retrograde

toxic chaos

~JL Huffman

new friends

I sit on the stool

that falls over

~Sharon Ferrante

poet of the year AI

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Poets!

Lower your standards

and you too can enter heaven.

~Noah Berlatsky