Morning of April 29, 2024

 

 

 

An old skald leaves his mortal coil —

aurora borealis over the fjords

~Oliver Kleyer

 

 

 

 

 

fog-breath dawn

following the downhill tracks

of liver scars

~John Hawkhead

Hamburg Main Station —

a lonely locomotive

in search of a train

~Oliver Kleyer

carnival freakshow

performers gape at

their audience

~John J. Dunphy

Unfiltered

Night after night

they place their drink orders

with me

Some ask for a special beer

others opt for martinis

I nod my understanding

but I serve everybody’s

evening meds with tap water

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

full moon

my horoscope suggests

emotional awareness

~Debarati Sen

landing gear deploys—

homing pigeon

nests

~James Penha

coordinated apples raining old triads

~J. D. Nelson

first fish friend hardness of quartz

~J. D. Nelson

hard part a cave inside of a cave

~J. D. Nelson

Spring noon

the koel and I wait

for the biopsy report

~Debarati Sen

'Keep your chloroplast,

Otherwise...' nosology to

Jaundiced blood.

~Partha Sarkar

pablum, pablum!

hyped

analyzed

synopsized

~dan smith

the trouble is soup scarf

~J. D. Nelson

time in the time of time

~J. D. Nelson

Morning of April 28, 2024

 

  ~Jerome Berglund

 

I can't remember if

~Noah Berlatsky

wipe my brow

and I'm leaking insects

into the air

~Jerome Berglund

tactful

hotelier

directing

the many-

splendored

fountains

~Jerome Berglund

new management

pandas on the mural

wearing sombreros

~Tuyet Van Do

no

quantity limits

when legal things

are immoral

and moral things illegal

~Jerome Berglund

spilling

into the night

my sister’s secrets

~C. Jean Downer, Ph.D.

taking it

all too far…

the Mekong

~David Cox

family vault

there will be no other name

on the tombstone

~Marie Derley

standing silent

in an empty house

grand piano

~C. Jean Downer, Ph.D.

Blurb

Many people

who are more important than me

say

that I am important.

Buy my book.

~Noah Berlatsky

Morning of April 22, 2024

freedom

on the other side

of an open door

~Jennifer Gurney

no doctors lurking in the apple orchard

~petro c. k.

apparently money doesn’t grow on trees

                                                                         cherry blossoms

~Joshua St. Claire

pause in the relationship girlfriend in a comma

~petro c. k.

crisis of absolutely everything bagel

~petro c. k.

Ghost Walk

A beam, opens up the shadowy

misty, nighttime sadness beyond

the casket of the temporary.

Filled with hidden, earthly treasures.

Then, you appear, pale, opaque,

playing in my mind, on repeat.

~Keith Snow

he stumbles on the line

circus tightrope walker fails

the police sobriety test

~John J. Dunphy

unable

to keep noise out

I let silence in

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

spiral staircase

the vertigo of

twisted truths

~Leon Tefft

people are complicated

people are dead

people keep being

like a hammer to the head

~Noah Berlatsky

frosted windows

clearly visible

memory loss

~Leon Tefft

inflation

just a few more

cherry blossoms

~Joshua St. Claire

No line that I have written

will ever be remembered.

No, not this one.

No, not this one either.

~Noah Berlatsky