Morning of September 8, 2022

please william tell of the boy beneath the apple

~Robert Witmer

nostalgia back when i was kerouac

~Kelly Moyer

foaming mad algorithm

~Keith Evetts

obsolescence in conversation nonetheless

~Kelly Moyer

rowing ashore why not revolt

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

old flame she breathes hot polythene

~John Hawkhead

moon soon rains coming of age

~Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

disparate ballistics the time it took to lay the tracks

~Robert Moyer

Grief is buried under the floorboards

~Christian Ward

non-linear thus kept for observation

~Kelly Moyer

too soon to be Episcopalian

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of September 7, 2022

testing their thick skin

    unknown

        night creatures

            snapping

my dragon fruit

~Tuyet Van Do

river shadows slapping gnats

~Keith Evetts

centipede llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllegs

~petro c.k.

a north wind blows the alley cat round the corner

~Robert Witmer

until I’m fully awake hooting owl

~Reid Hepworth

Dahomey

Fantastical cawed the macaw,

An opium dream in his beak,

A tail as long as a lamppost,

A laugh as loud as the shriek

Of the ladies with lizards and ghost fruit

Bats dangling under the eaves

Of their bungalows, under the leaves

Of the banyan, lithe ladies who

Look to the Amazons

Filing their teeth in the night.

~Robert Witmer

illicit corroboration rat feet scuttle in the empty walls

~Robert Moyer

raucous crows the chainsaw

~Keith Evetts

ticking time bomb bee's butt on the pink lips

~Amoolya Kamalnath

just happening to be a bumblebee

~Keith Evetts

muted light years in dragons

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

werewolf behind any of these trees

~Keith Evetts

Afternoon of September 4, 2022

bouillabaisse

a waiter serves

the origin of species

 
~Keith Evetts

 

bamboo flute with oyster sauce

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

the boys, the boys

you tell me how

many brothers I have

as if such a thing

would tumble about

in my brain

and confuse you

~Shasta Hatter

The moon has been replaced by wolf’s teeth

~Christian Ward

dinosaurs gone

hole in the ocean floor

seen from space

~Bob Carlton

 

 

The half-submerged pier

an understudy for sea monsters

~Christian Ward

Just Above Gravity

And it is asteroids flashing

in some nanosecond of vision

that compels me

to the vast planet wasteland

where the air requires additional oxygen.

The need to explore beyond -

requires no allegiance

to order as it is known.

That you wish to come with me is in itself

an extraterrestrial enigma.

~R. Gerry Fabian

friend on the phone

guides me to Mars

alone in city sky

~Shasta Hatter

a degree

from the best

university

 

I point

the lawn sprinkler

 

the wrong way

~Keith Evetts

the atoms

of our half-truths

collide with

the science of lies

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

rhinestone studded hat

organically grown

for bus riding

~Shasta Hatter

desirable dandelion if not so many

~Keith Evetts

no more pretending check please

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 31, 2022

how young you must be to walk on water

~Keith Evetts

getting the protocols for time travel from the man with the clip-on tie

~Patrick Sweeney

finding my obituary in a burned book

~Patricia Hawkhead

dust bunnies

if only to propagate

his myth

~Kelly Moyer

conscratchyoulations

said flea leaving

it(ch) to me

~Geoff Pope

Sometime after dawn

the orange tractor combed the beach

as green mermaids sang.

~Damon Hubbs

that bone is no bone

is no bone

it is no bone

~Richard Magahiz

arachnid umbrellas marching forth

~Amoolya Kamalnath

t ran…sit ion

~Geoff Pope

all day drinking on throw-up cushions

~Patricia Hawkhead

not a single right answer to my question

~Mona Bedi

Rorschach test

I see now I should've said

butterfly

~Patrick Sweeney

after tasting

the soupe du jour

(asparagus)

I forget my middle name

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Afternoon of August 30, 2022

jellyfish just add water

~Keith Evetts

her milk chocolate passport says she's soft

~Richard Magahiz

many elephants

migrating across my eyes

searching for water

~Anthony Ward

   Surreal morning—

     A hazy dream 

     rests quietly 

     on my eyelids 

     waiting to crawl 

     into my eyes.

~Vipanjeet Kaur

spectral emission a ghost in the machine

~John Hawkhead

lightning storm —

somewhere the smell

of a fuse box

~Daipayan Nair

by lamplight

nietzsche

becomes me

~Kelly Moyer

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