Morning of August 26, 2022

sea turtles

saving the world or

something

~Eavonka Ettinger

swarm of flies—

        mourners 

             with agenda

~A.J. Anwar

lying awake

rusted key

opening nothing

~Kimberly Kuchar

she fishes

in her ancestors’

heads

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

sleep talking

to a brick wall

and they live

happily never after

therapy

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

cold room

he juggles with my

psychology

~Ranice Tara

pad thai and chocolate cheesecake self-destruct

~Mark Meyer

 

triple chocolate muffin

all the gloop

in the final mouthful

~Mark Gilbert

under the stairs

whispers

inside the walls

giggles

between her ears

nothing

~Kimberly Kuchar

time travels . . .

ancestor’s gum

on my shoe

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 24, 2022

roaring waves

how quietly the shores

let go

~Arvinder Kaur

evolution

I want more hands

the next time

~Minal Sarosh

one worried toad

I work for the sun

~J. D. Nelson

bathing in the moon's echo mushrooms

~Rich Schilling

laughing buddha

ah! to know nothing

as well as he does

~Kenneth Slaughter

tiny clumps

in the litter box

ignoring

what I can

on my to-do list

~Kenneth Slaughter

hushpuppy

a whimper

in the night

~Kelly Moyer

five fleas fleeing

the crime scene

as the itch

takes a paw

into its own hand

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

hoping there’s no sequel serial marriages

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

because on starry nights i breathe like a black hole

~Minal Sarosh

Afternoon of August 22, 2022

it helps to think of wild zinnias as people

~Patrick Sweeney

as if someone shot a hole in the (flashback) sun

~Julie Bloss Kelsey

Washington when did his dream die

~Pris Campbell

wine sips itself Merlot

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

sleep walking

through great wall

of china set

mother uses only

on special never occasion

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

sun shower in lieu of a wordy benediction

~Patrick Sweeney

squiggling underarm hairs

~Amoolya Kamalnath

metamorphosis where are my parts

~Kenneth Slaughter

death no more selfies

~Roberta Beach Jacobson