Recruiting
before
activity
ends in the cerebrum
a precisely located shock
it jumps!
pattern
realigned with our objective
it thinks our thoughts believes
our ends our means
are best
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
old stump
my old butt
good company
~Tom Blessing
“Hey Joe, give me a chewing gum”
barefoot, soiled feet
this boy could have been my grandpa
~Fhen M.
just words
the jurors play
hangman
~Robert Witmer
the golden egg
each morning a different
goose
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
summer sunset—
a bulbul flutters out of a bush
and flies in a curve
~Tejendra Sherchan
My journey
Without a caravan.
Feel the vacuum, beloved.
~Partha Sarkar
the dune moves on
polished metal emerges
from the sands of Mars
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Knowing and Not Knowing
There are books on my kindle
I probably won’t read before I die.
So much knowledge
not in my head when my head
is filled with earth.
Who knows which books?
I mean, Finnegan’s Wake, obviously.
But other than that.
~Noah Berlatsky
candlelight
the fortune teller smiles
through the nervous shadows
~Robert Witmer
a white pale man
wore a Donald Duck hat
hired to build roads & airstrips
~Fhen M
flea circus
a mangy cat
snarls at a tiny chair
~Robert Witmer
lying
listless
in wet mud
street cats
~Rupa Anand
catastrophic
heat
the tree sheds mangoes
just to keep cool
~Rupa Anand
opal
sky
the morning slug’s
trail of slime
~B. L. Bruce
sun
slow to set
two hoots
from the owl
~B. L. Bruce
You are a hazy
moon, hiding
your intentions
in murky
mumblings.
~Nolcha Fox
annihilation—
Mexican Devils ravage a Peepal
halfway up
~Tejendra Sherchan
Pookie—
dancing to a cover of Boom Boom
a hearty bowl of Soupy
~dan smith
"here
take everything I have"
i hold out my
empty hands
~Tom Blessing
dining out now checking for symptoms
~Ruth Holzer
giving the bird medicine he screams and dies
~Ruth Holzer
syrtaki for once joining the circle
~Ruth Holzer
waking to the brittle voices of the morning ravens
~Tom Blessing
memory
a brief visitor to my life
the man on a raft of cans
paddling down the ganges
at hardwar
neither of us knowing
the
end of the journey
~Tom Blessing
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