Morning of November 15, 2023

 

it was then that I realized her family didn't shout obscenities at the television screen

~Patrick Sweeney



using the excuse of not wanting to waste their time to circumvent their wasting of mine

~Patrick Sweeney



embarrassment


the wind is blowing

embarrassment through

the trees. see their leaves

blush red as they realize

i am watching them

dance naked and free.

~
C.W. Bryan



Sunset; what to say?

The neon flashes brighter.

Tacos now, and nothing else.

~Noah Berlatsky



wow's as good a prayer as any

~Patrick Sweeney



rusty old pick-up line

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



back then I always left the wolf out of the story

~Patrick Sweeney



in from the medieval darkness   trash day

~Patrick Sweeney



food coloring slush fund

~Jerome Berglund



people who say hello to those no one else will

~Patrick Sweeney



who is owner running the microchip

~Jerome Berglund

 

 

we consult

our medical alert bracelets

for what ails us

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 


the excruciating details he puts into the stories he tells that nobody wants to hear

~Patrick Sweeney



airport layover selfies with strangers

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



fourteen dollars

flushed down the toilet–

airport chicken sandwich

~Jennifer Gurney



salting the steps

vote of

no confidence

~Jerome Berglund



bath bomb a war on dirt

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



finger puppet

on barrel of a rifle

fireside chats

~Jerome Berglund



~entering black hole

spaghettification, but

some sauce would be nice

~Jean-Paul L. Garnier



revived dinosaur

displeased with this oxygen

tries to roar but can't

~Jean-Paul L. Garnier

Afternoon of November 13, 2023


the sky is falling . . .

we all just stand there

watching

~Kimberly Kuchar



R.I.P.

written in chalk

on the sidewalk

where for months

a panhandler stood

~John J. Dunphy



the way he pours wine unsaid conversations

~Mona Bedi


dying alone phone

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



the safety of a quilt this depression

~Mona Bedi



killed without trial stink bug in toaster

~Roberta Beach Jacobson



measuring scale —

how fragile

this life balance 

~Mona Bedi



thrift shop

unkempt man

offers to trade

his Purple Heart

for a blanket

~John J. Dunphy



summer's end

autumn turns red

with war

~Kimberly Kuchar



bombed fields —

a farmer reaps

emptiness

~Mona Bedi