Afternoon of August 16, 2022

 

dead starfish stinging body hairs

~Amoolya Kamalnath

equally silent

a spider with thicker legs

than normal

~Keith Evetts

unforgiveness

of cosmic rays

sea-monkeys

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

My First Acting Job

I was the rear end of a horse.

My best friend was the front.

A bigoted jockey whipped us.

Back then and to this day.

~Andrej Bilovsky

chocolate ants......the dilemma

~Keith Evetts

the sound of geese losing consciousness

~rs

little chicken

a hatchling scratches

a hole in the sky

~Kat Lehmann

cuckoo cuckoo

the poet responds

waka waka

~petro c.k.

crouching water tiger lily

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Evening of August 13, 2022

ghost town

the wind has

its own voice

~Vandana Parashar

tax returns not catching tarpon

~Keith Evetts

reptile house

boa constrictor

sleeping off lunch

 ~Mark Gilbert

Deadly
Desert comes with its native charms

cacti, ferns, dunes, vipers and moons

speak to the nomads

in old tongues

–inside, it is the Inland taipan for the soul!

~Sunil Sharma

deodorant

silence

deodorant

silence

~Mark Gilbert

castaways not washing armpits

~Keith Evetts

For Love Or (Rarely) Money
When rags that don’t pay,

Demur ‘steada publish house

Hold name writers like

Billy Collins, Charles Simic,

Lydia Davis – makes my day!

~Gerard Sarmat

fire apple an eagle eats my uterus

~Pippa Phillips

from a nightmare

I wake up

in someone else’s body

~Vandana Parashar

irrigation in the courts::litigation in the fields

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Morning of August 13, 2022

typhoon settling into an eerie clam

~Keith Evetts

let them eat a measure of wheat for a denarius

~Joshua St. Claire

a pack of fleas

on the statue's nose

Belle Arte School

~Mircea Moldovan

unburning the bridge the unspoken name

~Pippa Phillips

2 a.m. after too much coffee

Awake again all night

Wondering

Why?

~Beth Gulley

making space for the soft-spoken ballistics

~Kelly Moyer

across the ocean

pointing to the same star     *

fingertips meeting

~Kimberly Kuchar

stepping into mist a knight in rusty armor riding the moon

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

 

lunar halo

the substance

of a tulpa

~Pippa Phillipa

drawstring bag of celestial tricks

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 12, 2022

medium thing

an everyday object

humdrums along

~Joshua St. Claire

trying to hold all of his hands crying octopus

~Kimberly Kuchar

downriver dead leaves a continent at the mouth of the drain

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

clogging toilets 

and arteries 

his future 

flushed with suck cess 

~Tracy Davidson  

sleepless window

my teacup full

of ghosts

~Pippa Phillips

 

 

a tea made of twigs—

I practice the art of peace

by making a cup 

~J. D. Nelson

plastic gnomes does anything exist

~Keith Evetts

fish fork in the road halibut

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 10, 2022

first fruits offering—

the vault of seeds in Norway

guarded by giants

~J. D. Nelson

59 Fleas and a Pillbug

.                .        ..      .

   .   . .  :   .        .   .   :       .  ..

.     : .     .      :   ●  .     .     .          .

:    .  ..  ...    . .   .        .  :   . 

      .   .     :    .       :. .:.  .  .     .

~petro c.k.

after

the disaster

and before

the next manifesto

their thoughts are with us

~Kashi Reisu

earthworm

eating

the Earth

bit

by bit

~Keith Evetts

dip the eternal dawn 

in a quiet cup of sea

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

smaller than a quark—

I’m nowhere & everywhere

startled by voices

~J. D. Nelson

watching 

my favourite cartoon

the news

~Daipayan Nair

falling petals apart from the daily news

~Keith Evetts

crash open the sky

a waterfall of words 

whispers in the wind

~Eavonka Ettinger 

fleas

the psychiatrist

driven mad

~Kashi Reisu

a couple

thoughtful reviews

fired into the ether

inhale the stars

and walk away

~Jerome William Berglund

~Uchechukwu Onyedikam

beet poet pickled

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Evening of August 9, 2022

worn teeth crushed wishes hewn from stone

~C.X.Turner

old pond

disappearing

the frog

croaked

~petro c.k.

stretch the ribs from fog to equinox

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

 

parallel     lines

a smile     our trains

         passed 

~Keith Evetts

her needle weaves

through the carpet

sudden daydream

how she cursed

such tiny eyes

~Melanie Alberts

all the sophisticated arguments — bang

~Keith Evetts

I sweep up

all the cat hair and make

a new cat

~petro c.k.

pigeonholed the earthworm’s tattered skirt

~Kelly Moyer

      all the luftballons

have popped

      fantasy island
     
~Jerome Berglund

origami

crances

the extra c

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Morning of August 9, 2022

fleas...

don't jump

to conclusions Issa

~Kashi Reisu

 

Tesselated Pareidolia

I         see             your            face 

every                where                  I 

look              it             is             on

every                thing                 my       

eyes          of           an           insect 

~petro c.k.

 

filoplumes indicative of her age

~Kelly Moyer

assault 

the climate

with conspiracy

torching

mealworms

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

flea circus

a distraction

from politics

~Kashi Reisu

 

after a vowel movement tialwind

~Keith Evetts

prodigal i wake within a cabbage roll

~Kelly Moyer

the woods

full of ticks

and tocks 

all the time

~petro c.k.

also on the road squashed armadillo

~Keith Evetts

this poem

has been rejected

seventeen times

~Roberta Beach Jacobson