Morning of March 28, 2025

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

escape velocity

the end

of her ellipses

~words and image Kelly Sauvage Moyer




back from moon viewing with cheese and crackers

~Patrick Sweeney




'It's okay', she says, 'It's all in the cloud.'

~Patrick Sweeney




hauling another 'refrigerator haiku' down to the basement

~Patrick Sweeney




the master whiskey blender

doesn't eat fish

before work

~Patrick Sweeney




shoehorning my trivial remarks into an oh-so funny neighborly exchange

~Patrick Sweeney




telling us all where to go next in a polite, human voice

~Patrick Sweeney




spring tweets

the White House outdoes

all songbirds


~Douglas J. Lanzo




chutes and ladders

salmon run

upstream


~Douglas J. Lanzo




splintered fence rails


pig slop

the peripatetic sex life 

of a rooster

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer/Robert P. Moyer




the grass of home


out of range

a hand-drawn map

to the afterlife

~Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer




the fig's checkered past


her sushi roll

as tight as a blunt;

don't bogart

that wasabi,

my friend

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer/Agnes Eva Savich




Approaching bangles—

Tickling the knots in the ropes,

By the village well

~Laila Brahmbhatt




The spring wind brings

onlookers

under a kitchen sink

~Laila Brahmbhatt




a child's shoe

orphaned on the shore

grief comes in waves

~Olinda Ninolakis




help yourself

wild asparagus grows

bitterly


~Olinda Ninolakis




Minerva’s hair

waves of snakes

her safe haven

~Sheikha A.




safflower dusk

under dragon’s wing

samurai rests

~Sheikha A.

 

 

 

Morning of March 26, 2025

 


she talked until

the horses dreamed

of extinct birds

~Rob McKinnon




Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/FASH-iz-əm) 

dark dawn eats all

the red geraniums

~Rob McKinnon




Moon’s dark side…

at Elvis’ space base eating

fried Mars bars

~Rob McKinnon




dark matter…

clattering of our fears

fills the void

~Rob McKinnon




Nightmare

dre\ /am

~Rob McKinnon




porch-sitting

whittle-whistling

uncle asbestos

~Sherry Reniker




My mind is

a bird, whoosh

thump

caw

~Noah Berlatsky




night

                   blooming

flowers

                   the moon

silver

                   rose

~F. J. Bergmann





I fell

in love today

animal shelter

~Jennifer Gurney




Variation on a Nursery Rhyme


Moon.

Moooon.

Moooooon.

MOOOOOOOON.

Jump!


~F. J. Bergmann



old poet

sleeping at the table

his tea cold

~Tom Blessing




Question of time

Or maybe

When I’ll get coffee

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




on the grave

left to the wind

two marble birds

~Marie Derley




shoveling i watch the plow

fill my work

~Tom Blessing




they seemed real happy

to see me but it turned out

they only had guns


~F. J. Bergmann




wedding pictures

trying to remember

all wives' names

~Mirela Brailean




            i ex  st


~Vijay Prasad


 

counting stars be my little general

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




difficult mother earth’s weight

~Tejendra Sherchan