Evening of July 15, 2025

 


red kool-aid

choking on the lies

we cannot tell

~image Kelly Sauvage Moyer & text Terri L.

French




 

 

 

 

 

chipping away from the inside a calcified life


~Stephanie Zepherelli




fated to die in five billion years middle-aged sun


~Tejendra Sherchan




knowing death comes at any moment primroses


~Stephanie Zepherelli




unwinding a möbius strip twisted relationship


~Stephanie Zepherelli




dying for the last time

the maladroit comedian

in hospice


~John J. Dunphy




a spider pauses

calculating the math

for pi

~Stephanie Zepherelli



 

Empathy and the squandering of the erotic.

That's you there, lifeless in the blue folder.


~Colin James




Chasing goosebumps

Somethings wild and new

Among violets


~Sarah Mahina Calvello




no proctologist

needed to recognize

a Nazi asshole


~dan smith




Lure me


Lure me at the square four directions.

Getting confused, I ride on the merry-go-round.


~Partha Sarrkar




Not humans, but other living beings


Not humans,

but being with other living beings,

grows a lot of green on my fossil.


~Partha Sarrkar




schweinerei

unlike fine winery

never ages well


~dan smith




I have had enough

of insomnia, snoring, and death.


~Noah Berlatsky




Pokemon cards

the genealogy

of tails

~Randy Brooks




now that

she’s fumigated

the lice

her blue haired

spring


~Randy Brooks




flatline

the guitar's last note

out of tune


~Jiel Narvekar




Flat Earth Martian

orbits ice wall

in hijacked saucer


~Nicholas De Marino




simple tricks

like only playing

the black keys


~Nicholas De Marino




self-reliance

we grow our own birds

from seed


~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

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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