Psychic Grief
diehard pessimist
her spirit animal
is a dead duck
~John H. Dromey
the latest fashion
a search for identity
in
a differential equation
~Robert Witmer
a dragon bone?
the little girl returns
a curtsy
~Randy Brooks
Yellow press or gutter newspapers
Custard, mustard, lemon meringue pie
Book pages yellowed by the heat
Yellow spots on the mirror's surface
Yellow sun full of midday beach time glamour
Yellow moon risen to brighten nighttime pallor
Yellow skin sickened by jaundice
Yellow fingers stained by tobacco
Yellow Hockney crocs my word
Yellow is wonderful and absurd
~Olinda Ninolakis
Alas!
war is not responsible
Fleeing poor in the election.
A weak and sick crawling kitten in democracy.
It rains after the prolonged heatwave.
Yet a mixed fleeing- Will an innocent get a perfect green cottage?
An eternal conscience!
I suffer because of the lack of green.
Alas! war is not responsible for that.
~Partha Sarkar
Doubt Sourcing
A.I.dentity crisis
~John H. Dromey
the contrasts
the symmetry
but Shane
never comes back
~dan smith
walk-in clinic
already seated in the waiting room
my one-night stand
~John J. Dunphy
Poison Pen Letter
venomous
words
in tightly-wound cursive coils
waiting to strike
~John H. Dromey
stillpoint
a brief refuge . . .
in the hurricane eye
~Stephanie Zepherelli
a child
the cat
catastrophic
collapse
her community
~Wanda Amos
afternoon sun
a monkey family
grooming each other
so delicious
the fat fleas
~Wanda Amos
the
wheel without the sun one could be
~J. D. Nelson
dandelion
parking the drive-in theatre
~Randy Brooks
parakeet
angle you redundant you
~J. D. Nelson
gurgling brook who’s a good baby stream
~Susan Burch
grain chain the world after next
~J. D. Nelson
campaign logic as strong as an oxymoron
~Robert Witmer
that
name suddenly one hundred prowling frogs
~J. D. Nelson
flapdoodle morning
making my way
to malarkey
~Susan
Burch
