Afternoon of April 2, 2024

 late capitalism

the books i don’t like

for décor

~Aline da Silveira

Togetherness

is when he loses his butt

and I gain it.

~Nolcha Fox

casting ripples

upon god's reflection

the cat's tongue

~Kelly Moyer

  true believers—

                 down 

                     the 

                     rabbit 

                       holier

                        -than

                       -thou

~David Josephsohn

witchgrass breaking off all contact

~John Hawkhead

left-spiraled snail swaged with tree rings

~Elliot Diamond

dark forest letting alexa in

~John Hawkhead

confessional the cold comfort of penance

~David Josephsohn

wringing in my ears the chicken’s neck

~John Hawkhead

Hope is a hamster wheel

without a hamster

or a wheel.

There is some hamster poop though.

~Noah Berlatsky

why do I always

underestimate the boxes

needed to move

~Jennifer Gurney

MalTease

Falcon

4 door

~dan smith

felt like years—

the time it took to separate

our record albums

~Jennifer Gurney

Relativity

4th cousin

5 times removed

Emily Dickinson

good to know

but no good

at Costco

~dan smith

spring journey

the petals on the ground say

that we must return

~Marie Derley

easter morning

an oh so fine

crack in her shell

~Kelly Moyer

rain

Easter sunrise service

minus sun

~John J. Dunphy

a whiff of cold air

someone’s late

for the eucharist

~Maya Daneva

herxheimer reaction

the spirochetes’

new cosmic address

~Kelly Moyer

you haven't seen the chase,

the tearing of feathers,

the breaking of the bones,

you're busy cleaning the backyard.

~Fhen M.

For Sale:  Derby Skates

You would have thought

they’d be satisfied.

But, no.

Tonight, I saw the listing.

The spirochetes

have put my derby skates

up for auction on eBay

for thrice what I paid.

As if . . .

they haven’t taken enough.

~Kelly Moyer

 

Morning of March 31, 2024

I am in the sink how is it a pelican

~J. D. Nelson

near-earth insurance giant wonderfully

~J. D. Nelson

window pizza purple instinct

~J. D. Nelson

toad that saturn neighbor to the north

~J. D. Nelson

invisible room grapes free of change

~J. D. Nelson

inflatable swan song

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

anonymous tax on sin he pays heavily

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

unsubstantiated seasonal sorbet

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

inverted pyramid aimed tо the heart

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

microwave burrito showing me its good side

~petro c. k.

deep field the sweater that would be forthcoming

~petro c. k.

greeter my name barely hanging around

~petro c. k.

turning into a pumpkin an RV on fire

~petro c. k.

Afternoon of March 26, 2024

 

shopping for beets under authoritarian rule

~Patrick Sweeney

from a 2D circle

Platonic Solids may be drawn

the building blocks of the cosmos.

~Fhen M.

first day of spring

his walk ends at

the prison wall

~John J. Dunphy

great eclipse expectations

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

this planet is hexahedron

according to the flatearthers.

~Fhen M.

OSTEOLOGY

You cried all through

the class where I

learned the heel-bone can

shatter, cheap Christmas

ornament lodged beneath

our skin. A car too blue

parked too close. I

walk past each step

I hear my break

~Hershel Burgh

almost unrecognizable —

thank goodness

I don't look old like

everyone else

at my class reunion

~John J. Dunphy

wink wink but still

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

ants raid a tree trunk

feasting frenziedly on

a sugar maple

~Chris Collins

so it goes

down the rabbit hole

a hungry snake

~Stephen Jarrell Williams

rearranging garden stones

shorting the Pleiades

by one

~Patrick Sweeney

HEDONIST

I live not for love but because the dead

Cannot feel a cat purr, or a poem read

~Hershel Burgh

a vein of Potosi silver on the neck of the woman in charge

~Patrick Sweeney

calming yourself down

before you fall

in love with her

~Stephen Jarrell Williams

she wants to paint a laundromat fresco of my ugly feet

~Patrick Sweeney

now more accurate

the crucified Jesus' skin darkened

by the church fire

~John J. Dunphy

stirring the pool

full of broken promises

bottom of your heart

~Stephen Jarrell Williams

climate change::the mezzo-soprano of ice

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

mountain cutaway   the blue whale's slow turn to polar waters

~Patrick Sweeney