Afternoon of August 21, 2022

Is that toucan on the box talking to me?

no, that’s Unlikely 2.0, the revenge of the absurd 

~Ben Nardolilli

city puddle

all the feet trampling

my reflection

 ~Mona Bedi

Winter Term

The road takes me to

brick buildings, drafty fossils.

I teach in my coat.

~Kendra Preston Leonard

opossum's faint visions of wild dogs playing dead

  ~Richard Thomas

part of the parsley parsley worms eat parsley leaves

 ~Richard Thomas

ghost hour

a photo frame in the hall

off the hook

~Arvinder Kaur

rareripe grapes

adjacent to my prayer rug

a cat sejant

~Husain Abdulhay

if I buy her chocolates

she'll only eat them

  ~Keith Evetts

grounds for dismissal espresso

 ~Roberta Beach Jacobson

things i didn’t know i wanted feathered tarsi

 ~Julie Bloss Kelsey

laundry day the starch in his bones

  ~Kelly Moyer

often I wish

when I talk to myself my lips

wouldn’t move

It seems to annoy my coworkers

but I’m no ventriloquist

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Evening of August 19, 2022

the dog and her ball haiku interruptus

~Reid Hepworth

traveling new road

left yesterday

in its pockets

~Uchechukwu Onyedikam

… today is

no different

~Christina Chin

bombardment: : the pieces of my sky

~Arvinder Kaur

sonicboomerang

~Veronika Zora Novak

late monsoon —

a street pothole

full of children

~Daipayan Nair

metronome over the chlorophyll feet soar into sapphires

~Kat Lehmann

a crowd rioting inside her violets

~rs

vapor trail your eye tracing her scar

~Bob Carlton

an anvil cloud forming queer wrath

~rs

held together

by fleas

old coat

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 19, 2022

deep field your exoplanet enters my orbit

~petro c.k.

placemaking particles I photosynthesize a forest

~Kat Lehmann

Turning My Back on What’s Happening in the World

freed from the news cycle

time to go out on the town

and make myself the story

~Andrej Bilovsky

dictate the occultist's grip on fragile democracy

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

construct the herd gloom sequence

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

a fragment harbor of time
 

watch the harbor of time
for the departure

of a ship
full and low in the water

to cross a narrow sea

~Kendra Preston Leonard

 

 

time lapse on the other side of the pandemic

~Mona Bedi

pandemic pantomime dropping names

~Amoolya Kamalnath

wild opium fumes . . .

a dragoness breathes fire

~Veronika Zora Novak

rag doll
my neighbor's mouth
full of pins

~Keith Evetts

Supreme Being the knockout game show

~Keith Evetts

many skin tones Jesus

~Roberta Beach Jacobson