Afternoon of July 11, 2025

 

A Day in the Life

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Fugitive Psalm

We prayed so hard

the statue cracked

and the rats poured out singing.

~Kristina Warlen

ONEWORD

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

Inflation of words

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

foetal spooning in shared DNA


~John Hawkhead

breaking the wishbone another left hook

~John Hawkhead

a buzzword repeated the merit of margarine

~Bob Moyer

 

potted tomato picked from the shotgun rubble

~Bob Moyer

stage left the lingering curtains of neglect

~Bob Moyer

anti-stress ball as a substitution for someone's neck


~Martina Matijević

thunderstorm wind now delivering branches right in front of your doorstep

~Martina Matijević

Thousands of turnpike accidents I've never been in

~Patrick Sweeney

I could see it, because it didn't belong to me

~Patrick Sweeney

I'm the boy who left the schwa in the air above her wimple

~Patrick Sweeney

...but they said they'd let me know when the next book club meeting would be...

~Patrick Sweeney

 

Communion

I bit into the wax fruit and bled.

God watched from the cupboard

with his mouth sewn shut.

~Kristina Warlen

 

Afternoon of July 8, 2025

 

in a steamy affair

with a silky voice

chatGPT

~Rupa Anand

sitting

crunched, bunched

and hunched

jazz club night

~Rupa Anand

there are

no more

marshmallows

~Noah Berlatsky

 

world heritage sites

on the brink of flood

or heat

~Tejendra Sherchan

war photographer

so many ways

to frame death

~M. R. Pelletier

live stream

watching now

from somewhere else

~M. R. Pelletier

lenticular clouds

smooth on the tongue

so waxy

~Richard Magahiz

the day

the universe opened 

wide for us 

  down a cardboard tube    

  sixty four balloons

 

~Richard Magahiz

alcohol

texts

from NGC1568

~Richard Magahiz

via total immersion

fluency in

whalesong

~Richard Magahiz

 

warm breeze

the gentle contortions

of the line-drying laundry


~Joseph P. Wechselberger

dementia ...

the softness of her voice

singing with the music box


~Joseph P. Wechselberger



 

open windows drifting-in sounds of muggy night lullabies

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

a testimony to my existence summer sky


~Mona Bedi

her first puzzle the lion grows a pair of horns

~Mona Bedi

barbed wire the duality of a rose

~Mona Bedi

leafless oak we finally decide to adopt

 

~Mona Bedi

morning brew

each of us

with our own problems

~Mona Bedi

closing the day

on a littered fleece

flies

~Gareth Nurden

early spring

in her camera lens

mushrooms

~Gareth Nurden

riverbed canoe

rain pouring

all the way through

~Gareth Nurden

rain tapping

on the tin roof

my front porch

~Jennifer Gurney

dipped in chocolate

how i prefer

to eat my words

~Anne Fox

empty McMansions

another neighborhood

without a ghost

~Anne Fox

mating season

he wears his colorful shirt

to the dance

~Anne Fox

returning to work

fast food employee

decides she can

no longer afford

to be sick

~John J. Dunphy

 

 

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Morning of July 4, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Sigil #1

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

ray of hope

the humble seeds

of healing

~words: Kelly Sauvage Moyer &

image: Kendall Priest

 

 

July Fourth cookout

tossing history

into the trash bin


~Barrie Levine

barely speaking

to one another

we the people

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

crowded playground my mood swings

~Barrie Levine

slipping between parentheses all the names of the moon

~John Pappas

linking my head crown to the vortex of universe

~Tejendra Sherchan

falling harder and tighter sewer grill

~Vishal Prabhu

taking the scenic route her search for love

~Jahnavi Gogoi

clambake party

her secret ingredient

too much wine

~Jahnavi Gogoi

vineyard tour . . .

too much information

not enough wine

~Barrie Levine

broken compass

navigating the course

of our country

~Jennifer Gurney

last year’s fireworks-

still under the table

a refugee counts stars

~Laila Brahmbhatt

fried and frayed

the spangled banner

outside Super Pollo

~David Cox

pilgrim’s progress

the AI begins

to pray

~John Pappas

the only thing

my cell phone lacks

a swiss army knife

~Madeleine Kavanagh

earthquake

not all of us

will survive

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Independence Day

she watches the fireworks

reflecting on her iPhone

~Joshua St. Claire

arguing

until I am blue in the face

day moon

~Joshua St. Claire

I waited too long

and now it’s awkward

stratocumulus sky


~Joshua St. Claire

morning sun

I count line segments

in the sky

~Tuyet Van Do

July Fourth

they pay me a dollar more

per hour

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

American experiment

will we all end up

tired and poor

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Picasso's pink period

rhubarb jelly drips

off my toast

~Maya Daneva

bricked-over window

in this ancient castle

rumors of a princess

~Maya Daneva