Afternoon of August 4, 2024

 

The Asemic Vacuum Cleaner Demo Being A Poem In Which I Embrace The Group's Critique That They Don't Understand My Poems And By Which The Lack Of Meaning Is Its Meaning And Because It Is Flawed By Having Some Meaning It Doesn't Have Any Meaning


The cosmic sucking sound of entropy

of worlds being pulled apart gone

is any disordered delight

in deforestation now only

deserted deserts of mind blowing

emptiness forever bubbles bursting

cyclic universes coming and going

like traveling circuses

~dan smith




this funfair

down the helter skelter

on a doormat

~Keith Evetts




brazen fly

killed by temptation

my girlfriend’s lemonade

~Chad Parenteau




he spent his life as a non-playing character

~Patrick Sweeney




opening myself to this umbrella

~Maya Daneva




5:45 a.m.    the complete, unabridged and unexpurgated story of how he put his roof on

~Patrick Sweeney




as a silk flower I might last forever

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




it makes perfect sense that the buttermilk boy would be the one to see the Mother of God

~Patrick Sweeney




flooded with moonlight our sunroom

~John J. Dunphy




sugar ants rushing to the scene of the nosebleed

~Patrick Sweeney




a fly not moving on the hour hand not moving

~Sharon Ferrante




house sparrows bathing in the dust of my walkway edging

~Patrick Sweeney




summer evening

the cumulus behind a house

out-wings it

~Tejendra Sherchan




waiting room…

a butterfly fish

jumps on my lap

~Sharon Ferrante




after the long rain

inhaling

all the earth spices

~Kathleen Cain




swarming bees

at the feet of Buddha…

taking refuge

~Tejendra Sherchan




after his child's death

the 'God'

in his correspondence

downsized

to 'god'

~John J. Dunphy




waves are incessant / they come in just to go out / and still I wonder

~Charles A. Perrone




I blink

my visit

is over

~Jennifer Gurney

 

Morning of July 30, 2024

 

 

 

outdoors

the housefly and I

putting our feet up

~Melissa Dennison




Olympic

flame-throwers

dragons

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




flashing church billboard

‘We love you

Sundays at 10’

~Christa Pandey




blaspheming against tv testimonials as a hobby

~Patrick Sweeney




requiem mass

donning the muted colours

of shadow

~John Hawkhead




they threw half-eaten hoagies at the Hurdy Gurdy Man

~Patrick Sweeney




Love is giving him the top half of the bagel every time.

~Rachel Turney




what if all my

dandelion wishes

come true...

~Jennifer Gurney




muscle memory

each room in the house

with its own flinch

~John Hawkhead




Bastille Day

convict breaks out

a deck of cards

~John J. Dunphy




in the sea

diving into flames

water dragons

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




the bronchial cough of the trash-picking bear

~Patrick Sweeney




no one in my reading group knew how to tie a shoe

~Patrick Sweeney