thinking
about what
I’m
not thinking about
knowing
I don’t know
~John
Paul Caponigro
sea
smoke
everything
I needed to know
about
'being and nothingness'
~Patrick Sweeney
nothing’s
nothing
~John
Paul Caponigro
dreaming
not
dreaming
not
knowing
the
difference
~John
Paul Caponigro
Standing
before
the
art museum, I know
I
should have checked the hours.
~Noah
Berlatsky
forgetting
what
I was worried about
I
try not to worry
~John
Paul Caponigro
basil
pesto
looks
like baby poop
I’m
certain
pesto
tastes better
~Roberta
Beach Jacobson
when
they began talking about speckle-patterns
and
granular structures
I
moved my chair closer to the fire
~Patrick
Sweeney
mysterious
time horizon of the last yellow leaf
~Patrick
Sweeney
all
day long he doesn't have an office window
~Patrick
Sweeney
fire
child of the sun
~Tejendra
Sherchan
ramp
closure on the way to a place I didn't want to go
~Patrick
Sweeney
speed
reading the book of my life
~John
Paul Caponigro
the
severe mathematics of a worrywart
~Patrick
Sweeney
resilience…
a
helix goes over my toe
and
stops
~Maya
Daneva
writing
a birthday card
for
myself…
psychologist’s
waiting room
~Maya
Daneva
snow
thunder
half-hour
spent on a semi-colon
I
didn't need
~Patrick
Sweeney
Unfolding
Continents
shift
at
the same speed
my
fingernails grow;
Earth’s
not swelling larger,
always
turning outward, I
must
be folding inward, too;
some
things emerge others inter;
one
crack’s loss is another’s gain;
the
new becomes the old becomes the new.
~John
Paul Caponigro
(Hurry!)
