Evening of September 20, 2022

chameleon party

no one knows

who’s who

~Daya Bhat

my garden lexicon

eyecandytuft

churchbellflowers

uptickseed

magnificatmint

sandhillcranesbill

boogiewoogiebugleweed

proseofsharon

inthelimelighthydrangea

outfoxglove

daiquiris

~Debbie Strange

and but so

then by which why  —

dragonfly 

~Herb Tate

on a high mountain

looking for fish —

hooting, with laughter

~Herb Tate

aquarium music

fish mouthing

the words

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

a bumblebee pollinates you

in your sleep, you wake up

alone again 

~Kyle Hemmings

Afternoon of September 20, 2022

cobalt horizon

in a cosmonaut’s helmet

the buzz

~Anna Cates

fourth dimension

tethered to the taxi

moon and i

~Daya Bhat

waxing under the moon starlet

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

moon migrants

we run out of

cherry soda

~Kyle Hemmings

meteor sizzling

above the bog—

night fall

full of frogs,

strange foreboding

~Anna Cates

in dreams still stirring

even taking flight—

Pegasus

~Anna Cates

wedding date

countdown to the clash

of planets

~Daya Bhat

Morning of September 20, 2022

cat tail

i wish we could talk...

we can, 

even if we only

scratch the surface

~Pat Geyer

dust bunnies

playing hide-and-seek …

I hide they seek

~Bonnie J Scherer

powering

a new fuel source

magic beans

~C.X. Turner

cinnamon-scented

the void baked into her

                      

                 muffin tin

~Kelly Moyer

evening hour

in the back garden

i solve myself

~Richa Sharma

      holy leaves

growing caterpillars

      the new year

~Jerome Berglund

flat stones in a childhood game the stingray's disk

~Amoolya Kamalnath

bit the pillow down in nine seconds

~Robert Fleming

leaving Alabama

 

on the highway

a flattened armadillo

 

between

one state

and the next

~Keith Evetts

waking up Weltschmerz

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

home from the store...

in a brown bag

a brown recluse

~Pat Geyer

(in)festival

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

death by magic fairy tales

~Roberta Beach Jacobson