Afternoon of August 26, 2022

mildewy the melody of closure

~Ranice Tara

autoimmune disorder it's always just me against I

~Mark Meyer

winged monkeys

swinging the jump rope

for Dorothy

~Eavonka Ettinger

a beehive cluster

in the closet –

grandpa's zoo

~Daipayan Nair

pandas

tumbling down

an avalanche

~Eavonka Ettinger

a foreign body

in my tea

I think he’s Latvian

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

full moon

witching hour

and they chant

spell the tea

spill the tea

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

cat in a cape jumping over the gibbous mooncake

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

bucolic forest walk tranquility 'til the nettle patch

~Mark Meyer

invisible hand

of the market takes away

the baby bottle

~petro c.k.

taping the pieces

of his letter

over his eyes

~Kimberly Kuchar

I sip espresso

and wait for the Colosseum

to fall

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

in the still

of darkness

a witch's

car goes

broom broom

~petro c.k.

Zumba!

Screw those lightbulbs!

Screw the world!

~Mark Gilbert

couch potato

twice baked

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Morning of August 26, 2022

sea turtles

saving the world or

something

~Eavonka Ettinger

swarm of flies—

        mourners 

             with agenda

~A.J. Anwar

lying awake

rusted key

opening nothing

~Kimberly Kuchar

she fishes

in her ancestors’

heads

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

sleep talking

to a brick wall

and they live

happily never after

therapy

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

cold room

he juggles with my

psychology

~Ranice Tara

pad thai and chocolate cheesecake self-destruct

~Mark Meyer

 

triple chocolate muffin

all the gloop

in the final mouthful

~Mark Gilbert

under the stairs

whispers

inside the walls

giggles

between her ears

nothing

~Kimberly Kuchar

time travels . . .

ancestor’s gum

on my shoe

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 24, 2022

roaring waves

how quietly the shores

let go

~Arvinder Kaur

evolution

I want more hands

the next time

~Minal Sarosh

one worried toad

I work for the sun

~J. D. Nelson

bathing in the moon's echo mushrooms

~Rich Schilling

laughing buddha

ah! to know nothing

as well as he does

~Kenneth Slaughter

tiny clumps

in the litter box

ignoring

what I can

on my to-do list

~Kenneth Slaughter

hushpuppy

a whimper

in the night

~Kelly Moyer

five fleas fleeing

the crime scene

as the itch

takes a paw

into its own hand

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

hoping there’s no sequel serial marriages

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

because on starry nights i breathe like a black hole

~Minal Sarosh

Afternoon of August 22, 2022

it helps to think of wild zinnias as people

~Patrick Sweeney

as if someone shot a hole in the (flashback) sun

~Julie Bloss Kelsey

Washington when did his dream die

~Pris Campbell

wine sips itself Merlot

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

sleep walking

through great wall

of china set

mother uses only

on special never occasion

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

sun shower in lieu of a wordy benediction

~Patrick Sweeney

squiggling underarm hairs

~Amoolya Kamalnath

metamorphosis where are my parts

~Kenneth Slaughter

death no more selfies

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 21, 2022

Is that toucan on the box talking to me?

no, that’s Unlikely 2.0, the revenge of the absurd 

~Ben Nardolilli

city puddle

all the feet trampling

my reflection

 ~Mona Bedi

Winter Term

The road takes me to

brick buildings, drafty fossils.

I teach in my coat.

~Kendra Preston Leonard

opossum's faint visions of wild dogs playing dead

  ~Richard Thomas

part of the parsley parsley worms eat parsley leaves

 ~Richard Thomas

ghost hour

a photo frame in the hall

off the hook

~Arvinder Kaur

rareripe grapes

adjacent to my prayer rug

a cat sejant

~Husain Abdulhay

if I buy her chocolates

she'll only eat them

  ~Keith Evetts

grounds for dismissal espresso

 ~Roberta Beach Jacobson

things i didn’t know i wanted feathered tarsi

 ~Julie Bloss Kelsey

laundry day the starch in his bones

  ~Kelly Moyer

often I wish

when I talk to myself my lips

wouldn’t move

It seems to annoy my coworkers

but I’m no ventriloquist

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Evening of August 19, 2022

the dog and her ball haiku interruptus

~Reid Hepworth

traveling new road

left yesterday

in its pockets

~Uchechukwu Onyedikam

… today is

no different

~Christina Chin

bombardment: : the pieces of my sky

~Arvinder Kaur

sonicboomerang

~Veronika Zora Novak

late monsoon —

a street pothole

full of children

~Daipayan Nair

metronome over the chlorophyll feet soar into sapphires

~Kat Lehmann

a crowd rioting inside her violets

~rs

vapor trail your eye tracing her scar

~Bob Carlton

an anvil cloud forming queer wrath

~rs

held together

by fleas

old coat

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 19, 2022

deep field your exoplanet enters my orbit

~petro c.k.

placemaking particles I photosynthesize a forest

~Kat Lehmann

Turning My Back on What’s Happening in the World

freed from the news cycle

time to go out on the town

and make myself the story

~Andrej Bilovsky

dictate the occultist's grip on fragile democracy

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

construct the herd gloom sequence

~Elancharan Gunasekaran

a fragment harbor of time
 

watch the harbor of time
for the departure

of a ship
full and low in the water

to cross a narrow sea

~Kendra Preston Leonard

 

 

time lapse on the other side of the pandemic

~Mona Bedi

pandemic pantomime dropping names

~Amoolya Kamalnath

wild opium fumes . . .

a dragoness breathes fire

~Veronika Zora Novak

rag doll
my neighbor's mouth
full of pins

~Keith Evetts

Supreme Being the knockout game show

~Keith Evetts

many skin tones Jesus

~Roberta Beach Jacobson