Afternoon of August 13, 2023

pointed finger gun control

~petro c. k.

school days caskets getting smaller

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

brazen art student

no place in the galaxy

he won’t dip his brush

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

one day I'd like to

write the lyrics to a song

that I hear you sing

~Jennifer Gurney

I love every shade

of the color purple —

indigo to periwinkle

~Jennifer Gurney

good news . . .

two colorful cysts removed

bad news: his green eyes

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

one cow tablet

dropped in water . . .

hiefervescence

~petro c. k.

every summer

I make strawberry jam

only for you

~Jennifer Gurney

stations of the cross

don't touch that dial

~petro c. k.

after the sermon a few new sins

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

as my last will

and testament I leave this

messed up earth, sorry

~petro c. k.

Afternoon of August 12, 2023

compost to compost, the forgotten zucchini

~Voima Oy

campaign up and running away with the circus

~John Hawkhead

Just two old ladies

talking about baggy jeans with pockets,

and the days of black lace demi bras

~Voima Oy

cost of machinery

heartland farmers

giving up

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

The men in hazmat suits say it's safe to go back home.

~Voima Oy

We're all falling apart, she said.

Still, I feed the stray cats.

~Voima Oy

supermoon

so tiny

in my cell phone photo

~John J. Dunphy

good neighborliness —

death threats and verbal abuse

in front of my door

~Maurizio Brancaleoni

rogue state to get ourselves into

~John Hawkhead

social

engineering

into

class

systems

~John Hawkhead

new poem

some renovation

required

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

apple pie chart of inequalities

~John Hawkhead

last but not least 99.9% of us

~John Hawkhead