Afternoon of September 24, 2024

The Fate of a Tender Heart

~Kelly Moyer

photos available here

hard lux the search for the god particle

~John Pappas

later life tango at dawn in red heels

~Katherine E Winnick

butterfly effect a sonata of ghosted notes

~John Pappas

a sunbeam slowly hardens into thought

~Vijay Prasad

door slam the slippery lizard loses his tail

~Katherine E Winnick

secrets swept under the carpet bombing

~John Pappas

sandpipers cast toothpicks to olive moons

~Elliot Diamond

ink bleeding the light from a dying star

~John Pappas

rumors of war

a moon too full

to carry

~John Pappas

people who

double click their car fob

just to hear their horn beep

~Jennifer Gurney

dogs in purses

dogs in restaurants

dog days of summer

~Jennifer Gurney

The size of the sky

 

Measuring the size of the sky

on the scale of cloud speed

~Marie Derley

condemned convict's last meal

he asks to write

a yelp review

~John J. Dunphy

drought

shrinking river reveals

more guns

~John J. Dunphy

as we had been told

our guns were useless,

useless

~Richard Magahiz

no claws no teeth

no eyes not even

a proper mouth

~Richard Magahiz

asleep

at wheel

in worst things

how directly

culpable

am I

~Jerome Berglund

 

Morning of September 22, 2024

 

 

golf course sniper

aiming to make

a hole in one candidate

~John J. Dunphy

monsoon night

a cockroach has eaten

my m & m

~Tejendra Sherchan

moon in virgo

looking up

vaginoplasty

~Adele Evershed

what we believed to be our fairytale eggplant

~Kelly Moyer

misogyny

a twist of salt

on the lyme

~Kelly Moyer

cost of living

a crisp

two-dollar apple

~Kelly Moyer

midlife romance

the ripeness

of discount nectarines

~Kelly Moyer

beyond the veil

all the reasons

to become a nun

~Kelly Moyer

the world

waits

in the inbox

~Noah Berlatsky

yarrow leaves

I almost went

to law school

~Joshua St. Claire

 

Evening of September 18, 2024

 

And So the Ego

~Kelly Moyer 

Photos available here

Jazz Trio

glorm-glorm-glouourm-gle-

gl-glee-gl-glee-gl-glorm           gling

glee-gl-gl-gl-glorm 

boum ba-ba-boum boum

ts-tss boum ba-boum boum tss

ta-ts-tsss-ta-ts

glorm glorm glorm ba-boom

glorm glee ba-boom ta-ts-tsss

ta-ts-tsss ba-boom

~Morley Carothers

before and after his white lies heat mirage

~Hifsa Ashraf

dried lilacs her illness in a nutshell

~Hifsa Ashraf

soccer kick the parabola of adrenaline rush

~Hifsa Ashraf

political rhetoric winding up the wireless fidelity

~Hifsa Ashraf

full house

too many hearts

I fold

~Olinda Ninolakis

Statistically speaking frequentists seem a little too flippant

~dan smith

the collapse of to-do lists survival instinct

~Arvinder Kaur

after the tunnel the mountains’ open arms

~Arvinder Kaur

vast blue

the loneliness of a cirrus

just like mine

~Arvinder Kaur

The aberrations of too much tripe

and not enough treacle

~Kathryn Lasseter

 

 

 

sweat from my brow

adds salt to bubble tea

August heatwave

~Patricia Carragon

Far and Bare

night squalls.

snakes bite.

~Kathryn Lasseter

Vertigo

Mound of art.

Ants in the belfry

~Kathryn Lasseter

Maleficent

make eyes at varmints

transact tempo

~Kathryn Lasseter

a crapulous man with a crapulous Poe on his tee-shirt

~Patrick Sweeney

a C-note says he talks to the hovering dragonfly

~Patrick Sweeney

queasy with complex prognostications, we let the thriller come to a confusing end

~Patrick Sweeney

fire in the top of the silver maple, I've come to my algebraic limit

~Patrick Sweeney

dirt between her toes

she walks in the way

of sun-faced buddhas

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

 

 

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