Morning of March 10, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                    Into the Fray

                                                    ~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

cracker crumb crusade

movie night

the kittens root

about the bedsheets

~Terri L. French/Kelly Sauvage Moyer

ragged birkenstocks

hippie festival

the yogini’s herbal

pyramid scheme

~Robert P. Moyer/Kelly Sauvage Moyer

Buying coffee

Anger is an expensive

Luxury


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

percolator’s burble

shattered carafe

the laws of physics call

for psilocybin

~Terri L. French/Kelly Sauvage Moyer

White Cheddar

the box of cheese

is due today

the birthday gift

from a facebook friend

who works two jobs

and orders presents

for those less fortunate

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

White House

spiderman

oh, what a tangled web

~dan smith

star

pejazzled

banner

~Helen Buckingham

disruption—

his sick/cad/ian

rhythms

~dan smith

Ursa Minor

stars beyond dancing

dancing

~Helen Buckingham

surveillance—

Sunday in the Park

With George (Orwell)

~dan smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

awaiting diagnosis

the cat kneads

my every regret

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

 

 

Afternoon of March 9, 2025

 

Hey, Tiger!

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

Spacetime

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

 

Earth slaps tariffs

on everything in sight

Mars sees red

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

her snacking abilities

noted in performance report

page 2

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

she shoots through the door

her late husband

is spitting bullets

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

the robot

peels off its human face

the hand we're dealt

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

werebunnies

the fangs only

half the story

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

What You Catch

before

the girl looked weird

both heads making eyes at him

during

grubs spilled out

with every retch and cough

after

she put his rolled-up skin

in the dumpster

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

 

 

 

a tapestry of emotions pursuing divorce

~Katherine E Winnick

at the corner of here and there landmines


~Roberta Beach Jacobson

a gaze lays bare the regions indeterminate in her

~Vijay Prasad

among the dirt

while I sweep my house

a rolling away pill

~Tejendra Sherchan

we wind up

grandma’s cuckoo clock

silence


~Belinda Behne

just one more

piece of chocolate


~Belinda Behne

A Lifelong Project

Accepting

that your poetry

is not

very good.

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

 

 
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Afternoon of March 7, 2025

 

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I dreamed I was in a Fellini movie

shooing a horsefly off the gorgonzola with a pink boa,

     anyone?

~Patrick Sweeney

Had Lenin toiled in the production centre?

Did Lenin himself toil in the sun?

Had Lenin hammered in the production,

There would be a complete revolution.

~Partha Sarkar

she doesn't want to talk about monkey bites in the coliseum

~Patrick Sweeney

staring at the bustling people fishes on sale

~Tejendra Sherchan

sunset moving a silhouette of shamrocks onto the bathroom wall

~Patrick Sweeney

tooth fairy decay

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

you can speak freely in front of these house sparrows

~Patrick Sweeney

cameras flash our rebirth is thwarted

~Richard Magahiz

in celebration of introversion hoodie

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

suddenly anxious for the appearance of violets

~Patrick Sweeney

boiling in the blood a sniveling appetite for lead

~Richard Magahiz

the clouds maybe don't know what they've gotten themselves mixed up in

~Patrick Sweeney

alone with my thoughts

clench eyes tight from the voices

too loud, too damn loud

~James Benger

ocelot protocols

stumps rot

to fashion-dust

~Richard Magahiz

after the rain

courts rule in favor

of the rainbow

~Jennifer Gurney

milkweed silk

at each ear     spiderwebs

drape the snout

~Richard Magahiz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon of March 5, 2025

  Deep Sea Dance Party

~John-Paul Moyer

death daisy hypnotizes drone pollinators

~Nick De Marino

certifiable his declaration of divinity

~dan smith

 

 

snow for no reason

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

infested with a body a flea without options

~Vijay Prasad

the s OW nd of hurt

~dan smith

stoned ape stone tape tapas and other near-life experiences

~Nick De Marino

emptiness in the glass


~Mykyta Ryzhykh

everything

in buds and blooms

why not me?

~Tejendra Sherchan

hither dither

catawampus

fifteen minute scramble

daily special

caesar word salad

~Marjorie Pezzoli

scissor birds

cutting paper dolls

holding hands with myself

~Marjorie Pezzoli

You’re out there somewhere.

Not forgotten. A fine time for

some Single malt sorrow.

~Rich Boucher

being and nothingness

refusing to reveal

my week’s work

~dan smith

birdshot

holes in your theory

another empty nest

~Marjorie Pezzoli

            sunset

  over the eastern forest

a monster devours children


~Melissa Dennison

mermaid’s purse

the coral currency

of drowning

~Joanna Ashwell

Building a dream

And we all

fall down

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Disowning

Before getting disowned

Paths diverged

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

adrift

as we circle in our orbit

new moon

~Jiel Narvekar

wrestling

with fate

the death star looming

~Melissa Dennison

Ash Wednesday

unhoused person crosses his forehead

with a cigarette butt

~John J. Dunphy

burning bridges

our shared history

in ashes

~Melissa Dennison

criticism

making what was better said

worse

~M. R. Pelletier

editorial

having the last word

first

~M. R. Pelletier