Afternoon of January 15, 2025


 

 

wolf moon

the politician's

sheepish grin

~Melissa Dennison




Bukowski in space

writes like Bukowski on Earth

ham on rye and sex

~Nicholas De Marino




embracing word salad

she struggles to finish

her poem

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




I love you

 

like the little spider

that you would throw out

 

only to find that

it wove hearts

into its web for you

~Oliver Kleyer




autumn leaves

us in

the dark

~Jerome Berglund




All night

Heartbeats reverberating

Down lonely streets

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




deep dive

bubbles

of sea-ghosts

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




A Sad Dog Story


I like to scritch you,

but I don’t want you to lick me.

 

You like to be scratched

but you want to lick me.

 

Every satisfaction is also an irritation.

Such are dogs and love.

~Noah Berlatsky




mourning the death of live and let live

~dan smith




And there is hope


Dawn with dense fog.

Visibility is zero.

That means there is hope

That means fog will lift soon

That means we will see faces clearly.

~Partha Sarkar




nature

without politics

backyard garden

~Jerome Berglund

 


Afternoon of January 14, 2025

 


yet another failed attempt to reverse-engineer me

~Patrick Sweeney




 murmuration of starlings over a killing in the street

~Patrick Sweeney





on the city bus, constructing vast and intricate biographies

~Patrick Sweeney




'If you're not doing anything ' as a preface

~Patrick Sweeney


 

 

using rubber cement to glue the golden lady back together

~Patrick Sweeney




zoo monkeys

she runs her fingers

through my toupee

~Richard L. Matta




a burbling stream

winds its way through

elephant ears

the way our landline rings

and everyone listens

~Richard L. Matta




handle with care a box of mindworms

~John Hawkhead




meandering still the ghost of a river

~John Hawkhead




lost language droughts since records began

~John Hawkhead





back of the shelf so much expired thyme

~Richard L. Matta




needle dipping the sound of silence

~Richard L. Matta




the only ones

we catch and release

stink bugs

~AJ Johnson

 

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