change of clothes —
every year it's a month earlier
~Maurizio Brancaleoni
“Caravaggio!
The power’s out again.”
“Who cares?
I’ve got a candle
and a job lot
of black paint.”
~Tony Dawson
birthdays
those Facebook friends
long dead
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
a slave desires freedom
a caged bird dreams of a heaven
~Fhen M.
to exercise free press
is never a given
~Fhen M.
one weaves a silken flag
to freely wave it is another thing
~Fhen M.
Stormy nights
At mid-morgue and
My shaky legs outside
crawling to closet.
But where is the threshold?
~Partha Sarkar
With acute poverty the poor —
The priceless commodities
In an election-
The democratic business
Without knowing why.
~Partha Sarkar
sailing into port wine
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
Nuggets
in ketchup blood
Burger from a killed pig
The grill is
working at full capacity
Scorching the planet
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
The
ultimate loneliness of death
A cat runs across the road at a red
traffic light
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
the
mouse ate the sun instead of cheese
glass grew instead of
grass
rusty skeletons of snowflakes warm the remains of a
nuclear power plant
~Mykyta Ryzhykh
shopping centre
a customer queueing
behind the mannequins
~Tuyet Van Do
fashion show
the model wears
an upside-down dress
~Tuyet Van Do
each morning
a 30% chance
of something
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
the
sack brown bag days
~Adrian Bouter
you flee
or you stay
flea
~Adrian
Bouter
