Afternoon of March 17, 2026

 

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the woman

who never wanted

children

now tired

of tending her houseplant

~Ruth Holzer




boxing up my books

someone else will do it

the next time

~Ruth Holzer




lauded

for their warriorship

state-sponsored rapists

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




100 copies

the day we became

the enemy from within

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




for the love

of burning oil in the morning

the chaos theory

~Wanda Amos




for over three decades

bigwigs run our state in turn

leaving trillions in debts...

and we continue to toil

in the Animal Farm

~Tejendra Sherchan




winter morn pretending we’re not sliding downhill

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




he's 45 minutes away

from his first Gaelic punchline

~Patrick Sweeney




from the back row:

what if I don't want to be myself!

~Patrick Sweeney




the deep biology of her smile

~Patrick Sweeney




suspecting some Upper Paleolithic trauma in the bloodline

~Patrick Sweeney




when you've no idea what you're doing

you've a better chance

of writing a masterpiece

~Patrick Sweeney




I keep waiting for you

to turn on the light

until I notice

that my eyes are closed.

~Noah Berlatsky




my wristwatch cursed

the hands stuck on midnight

witching hour forever


~Brian Rosenberger




tide pool

a crab

between shells


~Elliot Diamond




raining

cats and dogs

taking shelter

~Jennifer Gurney




We Are


aggregates of atoms

constellations coalesced

that get to feel

the burning arc

of stars.

~dan smith




Inventory


going through my old poems

it hits me    erasure

is the way to go

~dan smith




reinvent yourself

the last AI command

ever made by Man

~Douglas J. Lanzo




Unclaimed


The tether snaps. The blue dot shrinks. The shuttle fades. The void refuses.

~Outis

 

 

 

Afternoon of March 12, 2026

 

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Monoglot


I don't know what you're talking about.



~Noah Berlatsky






A Different Kind of News


As the Aral Sea is replenished

As Nigeria eliminates malaria

As Chile puts an end to leprosy

As Croatia clears all landmines

As Libya gets rid of trachoma


Wild tigers are returning to Kazakhstan


~Olinda Ninolakis




praying for peace

marching for justice

I want my country back



~Jennifer Gurney




auctioning

off our souls

war



~Roberta Beach Jacobson




ten years old

Paris runway

to the Max



~Jennifer Gurney




Kissing to make up

Then going to bed

In separate rooms



~Sarah Mahina Calvello




The fence follows the road;

the road follows the fence;

cattle push through the fence

and cross the road

to follow the grass

greener on the other side.


~Diane Webster




Jet trails streak parallel

lines across the sky;

the grocery cart wheels

track water marks

from a mudpuddle

in the parking lot.


~Diane Webster




storm split mimosa

and nowhere anyone

to blame



~Patrick Sweeney




doodling in the profit margins



~Roberta Beach Jacobson




counting now on the kids who wouldn't stay in line



~Patrick Sweeney

 

Afternoon of March 10, 2026

 


syphilitic drainage

gumming up

the world order

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




springtime pollen

a whistleblower

weeps

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




blank poem

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




press blackout cutting the eyes from potatoes


~Patricia Hawkhead




ice cold moon her expired passport

~Barrie Levine




off with our heads March wind

~Cynthia Anderson




exponential

the expanding universe

of errands

~Cynthia Anderson




the hereafter

no more battles with

rats in the walls

~Cynthia Anderson




guacamole

letting the chips fall

where they may

~Cynthia Anderson




spring, eh

someone forgot to tell them

6 geese on the frozen lake

~Tom Blessing




shouting out

all the names with pauses

a vegetable vendor

~Tejendra Sherchan




our ships

yoked near light speed

satori at last

~dan smith




start shredding the news

then history

then people

~dan smith




bloody knees

he falls all over

his excuses

~Barrie Levine




the three dots

of Orion's Belt

things we're not

allowed to say

~Ian Willey




whip-poor-will things get worse

~Ian Willey




dirty martini

soft porn

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




glacial erratic governance

~Ian Willey




wondering

how the predators find

the taste of mantis

~Tejendra Sherchan




colonoscopy?

the editor cuts out

my semi-colons

~Randy Brooks