Evening of October 17, 2022

reclaiming control-alt-delete

~Kelly Moyer

the caterpillar i follow down leaf holes

~Anette Chaney

brontosauruses resurrect at night but humans can’t see them

~Robert Fleming

shark pie in the bayou

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

You scrape

your shadow off the wall

with a spatula,

toss it in the frying pan

with butter and bacon

to fatten it up.

You eat it.

You cast a bigger shadow now.

~Nolcha Fox

a deeper shade of pale moonlight postmortem


~Rich Schilling

creeping up the wall slime molds of my thoughts

~Mona Bedi

second mortgage on your home page

~petro c.k.

a dark and stormy web

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Evening of October 14, 2022

       family 

no matter how itchy

     still family

~Rupa Anand

The Milky Way

fell into an artisan fountain

under a bridge

homeless people

playing dice

with a strange patrol

dressed in green

a milkmaid brought

a few porcelain lambs

to send to Mars

~Mircea Moldovan

 

poet’s

secret life

(redacted)

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Shivering bracken skeletons

 march in grey discord

~Rebecca Dempsey

 

 

sex                                                               pot

      ladling soup from the bottom of the

~Kelly Moyer

puppet theatre

the snip

of her strings

~Kelly Moyer

whisper from stage left your fly trap is open
 

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Leafing the ground

trees sate their own hunger

~Rebecca Dempsey

a sudden swing

of the weathercock 

abandoned manor 

~Arvinder Kaur

as I rearrange the river’s stones by hand...

you say

you want me to change

~Lee Hudspeth

vampire mosquitos

escape from a vampire's

niche and attack a group of night bathers and pierce their harvest of human blood 

into the vein of their vamp. Ouch!

~Madeleine Vinluan

minstrel cycle

I feel like

singing

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

morning dew

no asterisk at the edge

of eden

~Kelly Moyer

Afternoon of October 9, 2022

wagamama nottingham

chopsticks clacking

slurpers slurping

sauce-stained noodles

from wooden bowls

rows of peasants

packed onto benches

behind glass

umami
 

~Mark Gilbert

A domino falls over,

and over another

its neighbor falls.

~Catherine Zickgraf

morning mist

every word colored

mondegreen

~John Pappas

in today's horoscope

the colour I dislike

is lucky for the day


~Muskaan Ahuja

night market

the flowerseller’s

can of paint
 

~Kelly Moyer

sure thing

Sweating

and screaming

as Espresso Speedway

powered past Masterclass

in the final straight.

I was hooked,

addicted.


~Mark Gilbert

Denali bus ride …

tourists watching the moose

watching the tourists
 

~Bonnie J Scherer

gravity waves

past catastrophes

causing ripples

today and next week

~Mark Gilbert

empty theatre

we meet

in ghost light 

~John Pappas

Half moon floats

above orange and red trees

darkening sky

shivers, not from the cold

~Steve Van Allen

a corpse

 rising from pond scum—

 year of the rat 

~Anna Cates

glowing moon

casts a shadow—

flying witch
 

~Sharon H. Frost

lucky to have wrinkles to worry about

~Patrick Sweeney

a looking glass half-fully conscious

~Kelly Moyer

building muscle…

the repetitions in

sleepless nights

 

~Bonnie J Scherer

tonight

the unicorn

that was feeding

with my dreams

didn't come

I stayed up all night

waiting

and counting

sheep

on and on

~Mirela Brăilean

I must be crazy

to write all these

but here I am

~Mirela Brăilean