evening light footsteps of rain

~Robert Witmer

the campfire sputtering snow

~Robert Witmer

wondering why the last word

~Robert Witmer

 

daughter of the darkest moon.

~linda m. crate

the punishment is remembering. 

~linda m. crate 

 

drifting astronaut overlooking destroyed Earth

~Alper Ghuchlu

 

 

 

rearranging reality blue hummingbird wings 

~Kelly Sargent 

 

the devil's pickle sport: kimchiball    

~Richard Magahiz 

  

frogs marinating in cherry blossoms

~Stephanie Zepherelli

 

agony

agony

agony

agony

agony


~Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

American flag blue goes green


~Tim Cremin

Captain of the Titanic Ballroom


~Tim Cremin

settling with himself slush fund

~Tim Cremin

 

still believing in democrazy

~Ravi Kiran

 

Which end is over

~Keith Snow

 

Not meta

3

Metaphor!

~Keith Snow

 

rainbow-

ephemeral 

seven 

dreams 

~Partha Sarkar

 

headstone

footstone and everything

between

~Ed Bremson

 

unmatched socks same color

victorious 

~Keith Snow

 

fart of the deal

~John Hawkhead

 

chews wisely

~Nicholas De Marino

 

buzzards dancing on my dreams

~Jan Stretch 

 

World Wars

celebrating

The Fourth

~Anne Fox

 

life's a bitter pill bug

~Ian Willey

human resources diverted to AI

~Ian Willey

 

Floating the edge of nothing 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Deep thoughts circle overthinking 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Yelling through rented houses

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Red wine in coffee cups 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Every week a season

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

All types of crazy

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

each puddle

a new

winter

~Gareth Nurden 

 

Bashō 

he never mentions 

crabs

~Ed Bremson

 

seeing is bee leaving 

~Mary Oishi

ICE with cold feat 

~Mary Oishi

  

who said what ctrl+delete

~Vandana Parashar

  

audience 

watching myself 

watch myself 

~M. R. Pelletier

 

logos logos

~Jerome Berglund

 

cross-promotion high pollen count

~Jerome Berglund

 

revenge—demon killers becoming demons

~Alper Ghuchlu 

 

 

astral plane love objects 

~Scott C. Holstad

hypersonic shivering shake-pop 

~Scott C. Holstad 

 

two words

~Noah Berlatsky

 

daybreaking and entering

~thomas david

cuckoo clocking in clocking out

~thomas david

  

night data                           falling stars


~Joanna Ashwell

 

biometrics unwinding my DNA

~Vaishnavi Ramaswamy 

  

carving up the s(p)oils Gaza.

~Grace Mckie

 

orwellian mugshot unscripted dry heaves

~Melanie Alberts

drag strip: white nationalist teleprompter

~Melanie Alberts

second banana takes the fifth

~Melanie Alberts

 

dusk pond—

just the eyes

~Elliot Diamond 

 

fight ring

no wing

~Marjorie Pezzoli 

delusional grandeur 

~Marjorie Pezzoli

 

TARANTULA !!!   

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky

 

bedrest…

still the clouds

travel                             

~Tim Dwyer

future

now measured

in weeks                    

~Tim Dwyer

buzzard

circles

higher

still                           

~Tim Dwyer  

 

 

pigpen

the SPF

of mud

~Ed Bremson

while bombs fall holiday weekend

~Peter Jastermsky

playing noncommittal bus route roulette
 

~Peter Jastermsky

trading the towels her DNA

~Peter Jastermsky

 

warblersong lost in data centers

 

~petro c. k.

 

Canned tuna watching the news

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Don’t spin to a spinner


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Hocus potus

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Mad as the full moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

smols

reading between

the lines

~Douglas J. Lanzo

beyond the mistakes other mistakes

~Maya Daneva

 

cloudy night

somehow

one star

~Bob Carlton

 

global weather today intermittent drones

~dan smith

men slaughter

manslaughter 

man's laughter

~Alper Ghuchlu

 

30,000 feet just pretzels

~Vaishnavi Ramaswamy

cloud migration no kigo

~Vaishnavi Ramaswamy

 

Militarized honey bee careful - Buzzfeed.

~Keith Snow

 

laughing a hyena like me

~Jan Stretch

public shape-shifting politicians

~Jan Stretch

 

under a howler monkey moon

~Richard Magahiz

 

neither

this nor that

platypus

~Stephen J. DeGuire

moo goes the nature poem

~John Levy

 

new moon old tune

~Tom Bierovic

 

ill gotten games

~Anne Fox

 

hit and miscellaneous warplans

~John Hawkhead

 

Plans not panic

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

less is more, let’s smol

~Oscar Luparia

 

living oxymoron: Donald Truth

~Oscar Luparia

 

los & foundt

 

~Noah Berlatsky

 

Not what I mental.

~Nicholas De Marino

all the gory allegory

~Nicholas De Marino

overcreactionable godsense

~Nicholas De Marino

uploading cognitive offloading onboarding

~Nicholas De Marino

anxiety my gnawed cradle

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

 

avoidant attachment my kryptonite

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

 

Noah needs new story arc.

~Keith Snow

 

blinkin’ not Lincoln - nod

~Marjorie Pezzoli

golden plated phone not shipped

~Marjorie Pezzoli

 

hawk one syllable

talon two

~John Levy

break-up note her split infinitive

~John Pappas 

 

David Attenborough still living planet

~Ian Willey

struggling to find arrhythmia

~Ian Willey

the last morning star wars

~Ian Willey

 

Earth happily ever after humans

~Jacek Wilkos

 

blue skies the understory green

~M. R. Pelletier

 

existence

shuffles on tiny

legs

~Vijay Prasad

 

shaping a prophecy autumn fog

~Vandana Parashar 

across the spectrum fluid morality 

~Vandana Parashar

space

the word

refuses

~Jacek Margolak

misprint

my name

moves slightly

~Jacek Margolak

stiff leather

remembering the bone

~Jacek Margolak

 

slime mold popular mechanics

~Jerome Berglund

overton window

stained glass

~Jerome Berglund

portion control

learned 

helplessness

~Jerome Berglund

spawning salamanders nationwide

gerrymanders

~Douglas J. Lanzo

 

ElbridgeGerrycutoffhis

head

~Noah Berlatsky

 

gentle acupuncture she recites Basho

~Norma Bradley

karaoke curriculum

~Marjorie Pezzoli

in peach moment    now

~Marjorie Pezzoli

 

Collecting words I cannot say

~Merilee Johnson

 

paper-thin his see-through lies 

~Stephanie Zepherelli

everythingatonceneurodivergent 

~Stephanie Zepherelli

 

ctrl alt-right delete

~thomas david

war games play criminal injustice

~Jan Stretch

grass stains paying the price

~Pris Campbell

 

after a long winter daffodils

~Joseph P. Wechselberger