Afternoon of May 3, 2023

Labour Day

a blackbird rakes the leaves

under the hedge

~Françoise Maurice

Labor Day

this year the moon is still not full

~Nani Mariani

Corona-cation Chronicles Day 49

IT. 

IT will go away by itself.  

IT could maybe go away, hopefully at the end of the month.  

IT’ll be over by Easter, by the 4th of July, by summer’s end.  

IT’s going to be gone.  

CovIT is what IT was, is, and gonna be – never gone.

~Suzanne S. Austin-Hill

A spiderweb of

Interwoven thoughts lead me

Back to you

~Jennifer Gurney

lavender matcha

tastes like an indie bookstore

~JL Huffman

my book of shadows 

your dry rose petals 

on old parchment 

still you stay

nap on the daybed 

tiptoe at night 

~Sharon Ferrante

Seven properties of light: 

natural, artificial, painful, sneeze-ful, just right, obscured, and absent.

~Rebecca Dempsey

I hadn't considered

The ramifications of

Opening my heart

~Jennifer Gurney

nothing 

tastes as good as your heart 

artichoke 

~Sharon Ferrante

Wind sings through

deserted bones on an abounded beach

drowned sailors sing back

               in harmonic moans

~Steve Van Allen

Every surrealist poem

includes blood and butterflies.

Sometimes

other poems include them as well.

~Noah Berlatsky

Afternoon of May 2, 2023

dollhouse

my sister locks me

in the basement

~Daipayan Nair

quantization

the sunset begins

to pixelate

~Joshua St. Claire

Whenever trees freeze

I find words on their leaves.

~Bob Nimmo

demanding

to see his wife

man pounds and kicks

on the locked door at

the battered women's shelter

~John J. Dunphy

inner space

the place where

ideas are born

~Jennifer Gurney

aristocrap

~Joshua St. Claire

cold yesterday yet the stepping stones

~Minal Sarosh

postage stamp sky

letters

to forever

~Edward Cody Huddleston

Fleeing clouds

They did not come to war

They are the messengers

~Chineloromiheom Calista

after the battle

finding his friend

in pieces

~Stephanie Zepherelli

Juneteenth celebration

keynote speaker

concludes his address

by holding up

a broken chain

~John J. Dunphy

 

Morning of April 28, 2023

lost in thought

the fish

named after you

~Kelly Moyer

Cool spring breeze

clears the illusion

of this ephemeral world

~Steve Van Allen

giant panda divide

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

The tree shadow

Is scattered

I think

In spots.

~Noah Berlatsky

Once

you read the label

you know

the can of soup

contains 45%

of your daily sodium

Go ahead

buy two

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Ratty looking bird, rough break

out of an egg?

some mornings, I know how she feels

~Steve Van Allen

short straws appointing my successor

~Kelly Moyer

loading zone dandelions for the afterlife

~Kelly Moyer