Morning of March 13, 2024

 

 

 

music festival

a squeeze of raindrops

tightens the set

~Eavonka Ettinger

 

 

 

 

live show

the condemned strums

a high voltage guitar

~Richard Magahiz




Orange Blossom Special

Garcia Lorca

at the Opry

~dan smith




the pop star's

athlete boyfriend

dipped in chili sauce

~Richard Magahiz




lecterns

on soapboxes

atop pedestals

~Richard Magahiz




ancient litter box    nine thousand Euros in truffles

~Richard Magahiz




Listen to the coat


Sultry, sultry hearts in the vapor.

No consolation for the dead

The soft glowing nectar in the cemetery that is not far

And strong the scepter when flee the ashes.


An awkward clock.


Runs as usual the ghastly cloak before it snows.

Listens to the cat the sound of a broken heart.

The day is partly cloudy, partly sunny in vain.

May it rain?

~Partha Sarkar




Ornithology of an Argument or Who You Calling a Bird Brain?

~dan smith




Only movements of

The skinny fingers,

Nothing else.

I write something but

I do not know what.

~Partha Sarkar




death sentence

finding your name

in the obituaries

~Eavonka Ettinger




late night ice cream

the changing flavors

of each season

~Eavonka Ettinger




hoarse whisperer

snoring myself into

a sore throat

~Eavonka Ettinger




pale moon eclipsing sunglasses optional

~Elliot Diamond




kick the acorn

down the street

upcycle the can

~Elliot Diamond




grinding fan just the turbulence of memories

~Mona Bedi




what life

has made of me

sea glass

~Mona Bedi

 

 

 

fortune teller’s parrot the truths we hide

~Mona Bedi

 

Afternoon of March 12, 2024

 

creekside wedding –

no mention of god

in the ceremony

~Robert Epstein




twelve disciples near grandmother's dinner table

breaking bread among her countless children

~Fhen M.




intermission–

synonym for long line

at the ladies room

~Jennifer Gurney




bioengineered

for more antioxidants

tomatoes

coloring my world

purple

~Bonnie J Scherer




Fork Fed

the ungrateful zombies.

we are out

of tea spoons

Where did they go?

~Keith Snow




in the pink of light

she turns slowly back

to moon putty

~Robert Epstein




near the end, he was even shushing spiders

~Patrick Sweeney




in this realm, I'm the laid-back neurotic and you're my Zen master

~Patrick Sweeney




passing through quantum logic gates

the water's

sound

~Patrick Sweeney




breech birth

the racket

outside

~Patrick Sweeney




Sunday cawing

I recite the noise ordinance

to no avail

~Robert Epstein




my brothers are Snickers

my sister a Heath

I’m sweet and salty

in this Candy Land

of treats

~Bonnie J Scherer




infinitely

small or large

the calculus

of our relationship

~Bonnie J Scherer




she stopped his rhetorical imperialism with a salty radish

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a jellyfish

showing me

the way

~Patrick Sweeney




she's trying to purify the Myshkin in me

~Patrick Sweeney




on the rocks

my martini

and marriage

~Bonnie J Scherer




rhino(plasty) ––

losing more

than just habitat

~Bonnie J Scherer




pine cones   speak to me   of reincarnation

~Robert Epstein




she wants me to pause for oxygen and meaning

~Patrick Sweeney




in Japan

they'd call this train

empty

~Jennifer Gurney