Morning of September 8, 2022

please william tell of the boy beneath the apple

~Robert Witmer

nostalgia back when i was kerouac

~Kelly Moyer

foaming mad algorithm

~Keith Evetts

obsolescence in conversation nonetheless

~Kelly Moyer

rowing ashore why not revolt

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

old flame she breathes hot polythene

~John Hawkhead

moon soon rains coming of age

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

disparate ballistics the time it took to lay the tracks

~Robert Moyer

Grief is buried under the floorboards

~Christian Ward

non-linear thus kept for observation

~Kelly Moyer

too soon to be Episcopalian

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of September 7, 2022

testing their thick skin

    unknown

        night creatures

            snapping

my dragon fruit

~Tuyet Van Do

river shadows slapping gnats

~Keith Evetts

centipede llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllegs

~petro c.k.

a north wind blows the alley cat round the corner

~Robert Witmer

until I’m fully awake hooting owl

~Reid Hepworth

Dahomey

Fantastical cawed the macaw,

An opium dream in his beak,

A tail as long as a lamppost,

A laugh as loud as the shriek

Of the ladies with lizards and ghost fruit

Bats dangling under the eaves

Of their bungalows, under the leaves

Of the banyan, lithe ladies who

Look to the Amazons

Filing their teeth in the night.

~Robert Witmer

illicit corroboration rat feet scuttle in the empty walls

~Robert Moyer

raucous crows the chainsaw

~Keith Evetts

ticking time bomb bee's butt on the pink lips

~Amoolya Kamalnath

just happening to be a bumblebee

~Keith Evetts

muted light years in dragons

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

werewolf behind any of these trees

~Keith Evetts

Afternoon of September 4, 2022

bouillabaisse

a waiter serves

the origin of species

 
~Keith Evetts

 

bamboo flute with oyster sauce

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

the boys, the boys

you tell me how

many brothers I have

as if such a thing

would tumble about

in my brain

and confuse you

~Shasta Hatter

The moon has been replaced by wolf’s teeth

~Christian Ward

dinosaurs gone

hole in the ocean floor

seen from space

~Bob Carlton

 

 

The half-submerged pier

an understudy for sea monsters

~Christian Ward

Just Above Gravity

And it is asteroids flashing

in some nanosecond of vision

that compels me

to the vast planet wasteland

where the air requires additional oxygen.

The need to explore beyond -

requires no allegiance

to order as it is known.

That you wish to come with me is in itself

an extraterrestrial enigma.

~R. Gerry Fabian

friend on the phone

guides me to Mars

alone in city sky

~Shasta Hatter

a degree

from the best

university

 

I point

the lawn sprinkler

 

the wrong way

~Keith Evetts

the atoms

of our half-truths

collide with

the science of lies

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

rhinestone studded hat

organically grown

for bus riding

~Shasta Hatter

desirable dandelion if not so many

~Keith Evetts

no more pretending check please

~Roberta Beach Jacobson