Morning of July 16, 2023

 spam.link_that.fatal.click

~Wanda Amos

Tom Cruise will make an action movie at 90,

chasing down criminals in his wheelchair

which he’ll operate on cruise control

~Peter Witt

dominatrix's house

new client enters

through the dog door

~John J. Dunphy

cursed ...

some names already faded

in the yearbook

~Deborah Karl-Brandt

Tumbling from gravity

into sweetgrass

every child's

crocs are

generation starships

~Richard Magahiz

across the night sky

chasing Orion … starlink

~Wanda Amos

hope licking

at unkempt

rugs has no

beginning.

~Alan Zhong

twinkle twinkle

tinkle tinkle

piano lesson

~James Penha

at the thrift store

a row of used toilets sit

beside a chandelier

~Jennifer Gurney

record-setting weather

plastic flamingos

fly away

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

depth of winter …

incense smoke uncurling between

death and me

~Deborah Karl-Brandt

giant pasta shells

the internet recipe

a disaster

~Christa Pandey

Afternoon of July 11, 2023

junk mail

pigeon droppings

on the mailbox

~Sharon Ferrante

opening a can of soup I process my life

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

accepting denial

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

whispered wind

promises of a cool breeze

but only hot air

~Julie A. Dickson

We are all just

Making it up as we go

(In case no one told you)

~Jennifer Gurney

What sadist invented

Metal slides to sit in the sun

Waiting for bare legs

~Jennifer Gurney