hurricane
smashing
the reporter
protects her microphone
with
a condom
~Tuyet Van Do
Fortune
cookie
Is now a misfortune cookie
Tables have turned
~Sarah
Mahina Calvello
Hope
A
four-lettered word
Dim sum for one
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
ant Darwin’s
crystal ball
how to get through
the footfalls
to fall
~Biswajit Mishra
moonless night
looking for the right moon
for a poem
~Biswajit Mishra
reduced
milk
once part of a multipack…
I hold you so close
~David Cox
December darkness —
between us
a photon
~Vijay Prasad
my family folk art knitted brows
~dan smith
time flies — but where does it land?
~Tom Blessing
not one duck in the pond writer’s block
~Sharon Ferrante
Halloween
season beware of seedy orange characters
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
All Souls' Day
our shoes caked with
graveyard mud
~John J. Dunphy
such
a spooky season
election time
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
I told you one day
I’d swim in your ocean
—Jupiter
~Sharon Ferrante
rest stop law
visitors will be greeted
by a fly
~Sharon Ferrante
mid-movie
an urge to peel my feet
from the sticky floor
~Sharon Ferrante
I want that
to be my killer
of today’s fear
a fly on the nose
of a lion
~Sharon Ferrante
cold dew
watering the succulents
out of habit
~Madeleine Kavanagh
SHADOW PLAY
The rusty nail
bends back
upon itself
to see
its shadow
wearing
a sun hat.
~Diane Webster
INTO THE SUNSET
At least
the railroad tracks
have a partner
to go off
into the sunset with.
~Diane Webster
not a piggy-bank
full of stones
my gall
~Hassane Zemmouri
Heron — a perfect philosopher
A lone white heron
returning home
in the evening-
A lone philosopher
even without a follower.
~Partha Sarkar
spiky bones
in my fish curry
yet they can't protect him
~Tejendra Sherchan
time travel
if only
i’d go back
a day
and keep
my mouth
shut
~Tom Blessing
if only
I could lose loss
and find found
~Jennifer Gurney
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