Morning of July 16, 2023

 spam.link_that.fatal.click

~Wanda Amos

Tom Cruise will make an action movie at 90,

chasing down criminals in his wheelchair

which he’ll operate on cruise control

~Peter Witt

dominatrix's house

new client enters

through the dog door

~John J. Dunphy

cursed ...

some names already faded

in the yearbook

~Deborah Karl-Brandt

Tumbling from gravity

into sweetgrass

every child's

crocs are

generation starships

~Richard Magahiz

across the night sky

chasing Orion … starlink

~Wanda Amos

hope licking

at unkempt

rugs has no

beginning.

~Alan Zhong

twinkle twinkle

tinkle tinkle

piano lesson

~James Penha

at the thrift store

a row of used toilets sit

beside a chandelier

~Jennifer Gurney

record-setting weather

plastic flamingos

fly away

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

depth of winter …

incense smoke uncurling between

death and me

~Deborah Karl-Brandt

giant pasta shells

the internet recipe

a disaster

~Christa Pandey

Afternoon of July 11, 2023

junk mail

pigeon droppings

on the mailbox

~Sharon Ferrante

opening a can of soup I process my life

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

accepting denial

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

whispered wind

promises of a cool breeze

but only hot air

~Julie A. Dickson

We are all just

Making it up as we go

(In case no one told you)

~Jennifer Gurney

What sadist invented

Metal slides to sit in the sun

Waiting for bare legs

~Jennifer Gurney

Afternoon of July 10, 2023

I had big plans for today

To clean the house and pay the bills

But then I remembered –

I’m a writer

And the day claimed me

~Jennifer Gurney

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Somewhere someone

will like this poem.

~Noah Berlatsky

beach stroll

salt sprinkles

on my ice cream

~Stephanie Zepherelli

ex-janitor

his retirement watch scrutinized

by the pawnbroker

~John J. Dunphy

Sagarmatha

an avalanche of climber litter

~JL Huffman

forgotten subscriptions the color of missing money

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

marine layer

sunset eaten up like

it never happened

~Kathy Watts

black sky red sun

someone else's

wildfire

~Kathy Watts

Technology

and I are not lovers

but, cousins

who might kiss

when no one's looking.

~Keith Snow