POETRY

Four Haiku

Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky

MAY 2026

midnight sky

stars shining

between snowflakes

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My Doppelganger

Nolo Segundo

APRIL 2026

We don’t meet often / and that’s okay-- / it’s hard to meet yourself, / harder still when your twin / looks some 50 years younger / and relentlessly reminds you / of all the mistakes you made

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The Ghost of Chuck Wong

Bart Edelman

APRIL 2026

The ghost of Chuck Wong

Appears at your kitchen door,

Bargaining for your soul.

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Mr. Hanley’s Accordion

Baskin Cooper

APRIL 2026

on summer nights / Mr. Hanley’s accordion / coughs its way down the block / gasping like a donkey / with opinions about tempo

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Eight Poems

Andy Huy Le

APRIL 2026

Spoken word. This is a poetic diss with no stutter count. / Shots fired. Missed me with the Canon shutter count. / My poetry, always be brewing: pour over and dripping / Pull up for a Pulitzer. Clap, clap, and I’m dipping.

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Three Poems

CL Bledsoe

MARCH 2026

I left home when the angst threatened / to flood the levee in the back yard. / No one could keep dry in the high winds. / It was me and my best friend loneliness, / waiting for something to happen.

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the intruder

Ron Torrence

MARCH 2026

bad dreams / vague anxieties / unwanted thoughts / stowaways on peaceful / moments burrowing to / forbidden places

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Morning Fight

Erin Jamieson

MARCH 2026

I’m not sure if I’m angrier it was for her or / that you spent money we needed for our / electric and internet bills

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Gopher Trapper

Allison Guan

MARCH 2026

He sweats onto the grass. When he bares / the teeth of traps, fresh shoots ask: / “why do you know so well how / little things die?”

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Come Back Soon

Kelly Nickie

MARCH 2026

Why can’t the years / call back / to say hello / how are you / you are missed

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Two Poems

Srija Upadhyay

MARCH 2026

{ I am the lone bird tied up: / the kite in kite strings / the falcon in chicken wire / beating, bating, waiting for someone to notice me / the ticker banging away while the thinker / screams }

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Thresholds & Quiet Transformations

Rin Wilson

FEBRUARY 2026

This is how belonging works:

hands understand

what minds forget.

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On The Old In Clearwater, Florida

Nolo Segundo

FEBRUARY 2026

Old men attired in yellow wool sweaters, / yellow wool to play golf in. / Older hunchbacks pushing shuffleboard / with the tempo of a film in slow motion.

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Two Poems

Joan McNerney

FEBRUARY 2026

Alone, under a pointillist sky. / Gulls flying around me. / Black waters tinted by / stars of vague prophecy.

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Ballymarkahan Castle

Baskin Cooper

FEBRUARY 2026

I leave Cork before the sun rises / no map, no plan / just the motor’s steady snarl / the road unwinding like a dare

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My body belonged to a land it didn't know existed

Jordy Wiens

JANUARY 2026

my body belonged to a land / it didn't know existed / until i heard her lilting voice, / rising from the waves

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Mothers, Giving and Taking

Allison Guan

JANUARY 2026

In the eighties her mother / raised her right: put her in / piano classes. Pinched her sides / when she made mud pies.

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Two Poems

Bruce McRae

JANUARY 2026

You’re sitting beside a murderer. / He’s reading a tear-stained newspaper. / There’s blood in his hair, / a red hand turning to the comic pages.

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Tired Poem

Jim Murdoch

JANUARY 2026

I’m tired. Well, weary.

I’m always tired so I guess that’s redundant.

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Two Poems

Diane Webster

DECEMBER 2025

If I stand still and quiet,

will anyone see

my shadow now?

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Diminishing Light

Paul Rabinowitz

DECEMBER 2025

a sun will always rise you said / as you smile and roll close to me / pressed heat not like a summer day / but a crack in the dark earth / when molten rises to the surface

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Life is

Joe Wells

NOVEMBER 2025

folded in parts

inside

a time-capsule.

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Fibonacci Spiral

Erin Emily Ann Vance

NOVEMBER 2025

I was a fiddlehead with dew-drip tendrils / curled into your warm mud, / suspended, web-like for those hours.

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Pavilion

Allison Guan

NOVEMBER 2025

On the Pavilion / as the warm night nears, / flecks of sand scatter / into the liquid soil and slivers of / crested scales slip into a silver / stillness.

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Truro, 1961

Miriam Sagan

OCTOBER 2025

A canal cut to create

peninsula, a bridge suspended

above salt water, mystic and bitter.

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Bone White

Ryan Di Francesco

OCTOBER 2025

machines move through the frozen guts

of the empty / place / while people scavenge

slanted streets as fog lifts

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Strawberry Moon

Adrienne Weiss

SEPTEMBER 2025

When morning comes, / the strawberry moon will / enter a new phase, and / the horizon, shimmering / now with light, will suffocate / within wildfire haze...

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Lily of the Valley

Fay L. Loomis

SEPTEMBER 2025

tiny white cup-lets

dancing on a stem

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Yoga Instructor Enters the Room Like a Rockstar

Lois Villemaire

AUGUST 2025

We are silently seated / cross-legged on our mats / in rows multiplied by mirrors / lining the walls.

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a poem in which i keep losing

Shristhi Khanna

AUGUST 2025

clumps of hair on every surface. they say in medical terms, / when you lose hair, you start dying. it has been 243.3 days.

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Soft-Wearing

Sreekanth Kopuri

JULY 2025

We are chips / chipped off / discs of / transmigrated souls / less in the weight of love.

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10-2035

Liz Mariani

JULY 2025

humans are dead / humans are free / volcanoes salivate an air duct echolocation

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errands

Sonia Nicholson

JUNE 2025

/when the rain can't decide /

what's upnow must come down, later/

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Passageways

E. C. Traganas

JUNE 2025

The hall was dark, a solitary lightbulb / swaying uncertainly like a dowsing rod / searching vainly for water.

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Two Poems

Marian Shapiro

JUNE 2025

I catch an inkling of that daynight from the lemonade ghost-moon in

the timeless sky. Cool cool light, come to my open window. Remind

me of the once upon a time before life taught us about the end of it.

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Clashing Harmonies

Kevin Brown

JUNE 2025

Wearing a fuchsia dress that looked furious / against the backdrop of black-clad / musicians, she beat beauty from one side / of the stage to the other until it behaved

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Alphabeticalcium

T.E. Bean

JUNE 2025

Everything feeds on starlight / The grassy plains / Photosynthesis / Energy embedded in the landscape

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Threadbare

Steven Bruce

MAY 2025

The morning creeps in, / a pink light tongue fucking the curtains. / Coffee sits cold on the bedside table, / half-drunk, half-forgotten.

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Old Obsessions

Danielle Cahill

MAY 2025

There is a clutch of former passions / I have half-forgotten – once I could recite / Every breed of cat, large and small varieties / And all the Egyptian gods and goddesses by name

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Arrowroot

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

MAY 2025

My arrowroot forgives me easily / For lax unintentional dry spells when / Leaf blades fold in when parched, like palms upright, / Tight clasped in prayer, awaiting baptism

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Two Poems

Gordon Vells

APRIL 2025

looking into the eyes of a pine marten / there was no holding of gaze / there was no recognition of shared experience / there was no deep time

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Four Haiku

My Doppelganger

The Ghost of Chuck Wong

Mr. Hanley’s Accordion

Eight Poems

Three Poems

the intruder

Morning Fight

Your Friendly Neighborhood Gopher Trapper

Come Back Soon

Two Poems

Thresholds & Quiet Transformations

On The Old In Clearwater, Florida

Two Poems

Ballymarkahan Castle

My body belonged to a land it didn't know existed

Mothers, Giving and Taking

Two Poems

Tired Poem

Two Poems

Diminishing Light

Life is

Fibonacci Spiral

Pavilion

Truro, 1961

Bone White

Strawberry Moon

Lily of the Valley

Yoga Instructor Enters the Room Like a Rockstar

a poem in which i keep losing

Soft-Wearing

10-2035

errands

Passageways

Two Poems

Clashing Harmonies

Alphabeticalcium

Threadbare

Old Obsessions

Arrowroot

Two Poems

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