Afternoon of January 14, 2025

 

yet another failed attempt to reverse-engineer me

~Patrick Sweeney

 murmuration of starlings over a killing in the street

~Patrick Sweeney

on the city bus, constructing vast and intricate biographies

~Patrick Sweeney

'If you're not doing anything ' as a preface

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

using rubber cement to glue the golden lady back together

~Patrick Sweeney

zoo monkeys

she runs her fingers

through my toupee

~Richard L. Matta

a burbling stream

winds its way through

elephant ears

the way our landline rings

and everyone listens

~Richard L. Matta

handle with care a box of mindworms

~John Hawkhead

meandering still the ghost of a river

~John Hawkhead

lost language droughts since records began

~John Hawkhead

back of the shelf so much expired thyme

~Richard L. Matta

needle dipping the sound of silence

~Richard L. Matta

the only ones

we catch and release

stink bugs

~AJ Johnson

 

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Morning of January 12, 2025

Open for submissions: https://madswirl.com/submissions/

 

wormholes calculating the mass extinction of birds

~Kelly Moyer

all in good faith her atheism

~Kelly Moyer

arctic axes parallel at the midline of her latitude

~Kelly Moyer

city lights

I look at the star map

on my phone

wondering what lies

beyond

~Ana Drobot

sun rays

the geometry

of happiness

~Ana Drobot

robin rustles leaves

lunch among old beer cans

~Steve Van Allen

each day I wake up

and wish

we were not in hell

~Noah Berlatsky

Ages of Man

stone

bronze

iron

plastic

fused sand

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

a good poem

would have been submitted

for publication

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

waning moon…

i turn back

into myself

~Anne Fox

chrysalis…

i move into my next stage

of stasis

~Anne Fox

after tremor

prolonged shaking

of the power lines

~Tejendra Sherchan

new math…

the moon

no closer

~Anne Fox

asphaleia:

the earthworm's take

on space-time

~Kelly Moyer

inner space…

i make room in my head

for a recliner

~Anne Fox

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Afternoon of January 10, 2025

new year’s eve

time to start last year’s

resolutions

~Sharon Ferrante

war news the creeping kudzu

~John Pappas

no matter what I write indifferent winter

~John Pappas

year’s end

a letter marked

return to sender

~John Pappas

the calm

before the

bam

~Jennifer Gurney

loss for words

watching your beauty up close

ai generated

~Jiel Narvekar

rewilded garden

in my dreams

I am the butterfly

~Rashmi VeSa

my puppy

meets friends —

flea exchange

~Tomislav Maretic

farewell —

remembering my first day

at work

~Debarati Sen

I remember this bistro

and the handsome man

on the mandolin

we ate escargot—

wrote our death poem

in the rain

~Sharon Ferrante

seven years

a broken spider

on the mirror

~Sharon Ferrante

though nevermore

still you carve my name

on the white whale

~Sharon Ferrante

sleepwalking

from planet to planet

again you don’t know

where you left

my double moons

~Sharon Ferrante

hiss and tell the Year of the Snake

~Rashmi VeSa

Afternoon of January 9, 2025

2025

and they thought we'd have

jet packs and flying cars

~Melissa Dennison

he noted the absence of snoods in the zeitgeist

~Patrick Sweeney

he'd spring impossible math problems on you

and always in front of someone

you secretly loved

~Patrick Sweeney

blue-eyed gaze

of an orange cat

is that the face

of one who hunts

for birds and mice

~Jackie Chou

'Shouting indistinctly' in the old war movie, a guy from the neighborhood

~Patrick Sweeney

underground railroad

a Mississippi river town

no one knows

~Randy Brooks

at the top of the stairs

out of mother’s closet

a prom dress

~Randy Brooks

Piece In The Valley

here a gun

there a gun

everywhere

a gun gun

~dan smith

It’s funny

What you remember

Under a vast sky

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Late night,

I look up

to greet

the self-loathing

I was hoping

to save

for tomorrow.

~Noah Berlatsky

angry

origami cranes

paper cuts

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

high winds

a dozen ravens

hold the maple down

~Tom Blessing

a murder of crows

the tree pretending

it's dead

~Patricia Carragon

icy pavements

resolutions

just slipping away

~Melissa Dennison

alley

in front of his cardboard box

a welcome mat

~John J. Dunphy

The Zen of Old Timers

breaking pots

fleeting thoughts

perfecting non-attachment

~dan smith

winter seclusion, when there's no sugar bowl to break

~Patrick Sweeney

winter horsefly, go on with your bad self

~Patrick Sweeney

another hyperventilating method actor on channel 5

~Patrick Sweeney

New Year's Day

unmasking the old year

with the new one

~Patricia Carragon

no red envelopes

given or received

by relatives

are we losing face

this new snake year

~Jackie Chou

 

 

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