Morning of June 27, 2023

Truth is a bird smashing into a window.

~Wolfgang Wright

Winged wonder

grabbing earrings,

fluttering up

to sit on wire,

daring me to

climb to heights

and use my cutters.

I refuse, I choose

to leave home

hoopless.

~Nolcha Fox

She giraffes her head

above the hedge,

listening to her neighbors.

They look her way,

she giraffes her neck,

as if she’s eating leaves.

~Nolcha Fox

tightrope walker

meets past and future

in the middle

~Stephanie Zepherelli

Death be not proud.

Death be not.

Death be.

Death.

~Noah Berlatsky

Dead

turtle in road

we stopped - she ran out

Too late, shell cracked

it was dead - moved to roadside

No rescue this time

just a gentle word - a quiet end

~Julie A Dickson

dough kneading

fold after fold

the layers of my thought

~Françoise Maurice

Gambling

I bet on myself

And I lost me

 

I bet on my job

And I lost it

 

I bet on my girl

And I lost her

 

So I bet on the world

And all was lost

~Wolfgang Wright

The Rice Effect

What makes you think i am human?

the nap post lunch when i was a child:

a portal to different versions of me—

I devoured them all, so here I am a woman

young and fit by imagination running wild

on a bowl of rice to set the kraken free.

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

Extinction

Maybe the dodos were just tired of it all.

~Wolfgang Wright 

 

Afternoon of June 26, 2023

first date a picture of a fly on the wall

~Kerry J Heckman

inside my shell he holds it up to his ear

~Kerry J Heckman

stirring up trouble earthworm

~Kerry J Heckman

another mass shooting the moon split in half

~Kerry J Heckman

no longer

the breadwinner

making bread

~Mark Gilbert

Speed and the lolling—

the silence between the words,

uh, delirious.

~Mark Gilbert

Bauhaus exhibition

bleeps from a pile

of children’s coats

~Mark Gilbert

gated community

trapped

by her obsessions

~Nancy Brady

vintage wine

—the best year 

we stepped on 

~Sharon Ferrante

wishbones shattering the overripe fruit at the edge of a dream

~Kelly Moyer

pixie dust the secret life of a wallflower

~Kelly Moyer

night rain

what's lost is not always

meant to be found

~Kelly Moyer

Afternoon of June 23, 2023

summer night

the motel ice machine

hums to itself

~John Pappas

first light hunched over the dream dictionary

~John Pappas

one dead leaf

completely crushed

into the sidewalk

~Kathy Watts

cobbler

his entire day spent repairing

a clown's shoe

~John J. Dunphy

My childhood

is now

an empty room.

~Theo Itchon

I'm sorry I left you behind.

And I'm sorry I'd do it again.

~Theo Itchon

it wasn't staring,

they took barely a peek,

half-hippos and half-hyenas

side-eyed us

~Rich Magahiz

piercing family tree mushrooms

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

counting my nevers in a tin box

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

The screen flickers.

I keep forgetting

that I'm a superspy.

~Noah Berlatsky

If Hemingway wrote

a manual for my slow cooker,

it would read,

order in tonight.

~Nolcha Fox

new moon

sweeping generalizations

out the door

~petro c.k.