Afternoon of October 24, 2024


 

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

 

Afternoon of October 22, 2024

 

 

Hey, Kids!

~Kelly Moyer

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they're screwed

she thinks

escaping the shoe

~Melissa Dennison




creeping up

through the floorboards

they're coming for you

~Melissa Dennison




The Romance of Rain


Each drop

is colorless

of grief

or bliss,

a thought

in pale

oblate

obliviousness.

~Noah Berlatsky




what if I ask

the purple morning glory

to bloom over me too

~Tejendra Sherchan




Why

Y” in rye

& whiskey,

rhythm, rhyme

thyme, malady

melody, mary lies,

lye, tie-dye, my, oh my

by & by, bye-bye, fly, away!

~Keith Snow




Daze (Days)

In the projects,

you need a calendar,

not a clock, to monitor

the arrival of your building's

maintenance man.

~Keith Snow




B

a crappy crap

navigates

the sandy peach

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




tv

dare to unplug when off

is not enough

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




trapped in

an eternal embrace

the moon longs for deep space

~Melissa Dennison




quietly

inch by inch

death steals her away

~Melissa Dennison




along the road

a stray puppy's efforts

to secure an owner

~Tejendra Sherchan




Deciding

What road to take

Shotgun

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




train like hell

the US men's

reverse diving team

~Richard Magahiz




alphabet soup gotcha journalism

~Jerome Berglund




fumbling at my front door beetle on a chain

~Richard Magahiz




from their seafloor abbey    salt sutras 

~Richard Magahiz




what am I supposed to do turnips

~Robert Epstein




in so many words plantain

~Robert Epstein




castle walls common sense

~Jerome Berglund




reform the bargaining stage of grief

~Jerome Berglund


~Jerome Berglund & Christina Chin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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