Can I reel him in like a

fish and if I catch him

will I keep him or throw

him back in?

*

Karyn Eisler

Living ?s

headlights illumine
moth gets caught
frog escapes

*

Tonya Root

Buy Me A Soda

“Buy me a soda,” barked Methuselah.

“Shush,” replied Ralph.
“Buy me a soda,” Methuselah continued.

Ralph gave Methuselah a chocolate bar and he ate it.

Poor Methuselah went to a fire hydrant and urinated. Dizziness overcame him.

*

Elliot Andreopoulos

on sondra street

after the fight
she drives down sondra
tiny houses she once loved
now teardowns
torn down

*

Robin Turner
Gemini on Twin Creek

British Faux Pas

My friend Laura comes to Los Angeles. She drove from New York with her new boyfriend, Isaac. Says a pheasant flew through their back window in Idaho. We walk to Fazzi’s to shoot pool. Issac is British, says things like balls and cheers, mate. He kicks our asses, using strategy like a pro. When he uses the “loo” I ask Laura if he’s circumcised. She whacks me over the head with her cue stick.

*

Robert Vaughan

One Writer's Life

curbside spa --

at least a robin is

enjoying the rain

*

Richard Stevenson

All that summer we were horses
galloping through green yards
our long hair streaming in the wind

*

BJ Lee
BJ Lee

scent of rain
candle flickers-flares
dims to glow

*

T.D. Ingram
T.D. Ingram

All that summer we were horses,

galloping through green yards –

our long hair streaming in the wind.

*

B.J. Lee

Pomegranates

hanging outside a Genovese

garden. Father telling

me I'd wasted my life,

their bitter seeds on my tongue.

*

Christian Ward

One last trumpet left on the foxglove stem, valiant, solitary, sounding the last post for its fallen comrades.

*

Mel Morris-Jones

twentyten tipping point:

internet the people-cratic leveller

or in tweet fatigue?

*

Peter Lindsey

Peterwo.oh's Blog

days
whirl past...
drunken forest fire

*

Chen-ou Liu

Poetry in the Moment

Holy Communion - the Church Warden has left the labels on his new shoes.

*

Jon Summers

Hums

Permafrost
thick with weeds
glazed with snow
undone by a black Lab.

*

Joseph Harker

inside the tight curl
of the yucca leaf
a wood spider

*

d. f. tweney

tinywords

summer rain

throwing shapes

in the fishpond

*

Kaspalita Thompson

Snowmobile tracks

in the cemetery -

Let the dead

bury their own dead.

*

Tom Montag

The Middlewesterner

an arc of blue and black

head-height hurl through the car park fug

birds recognise no boundaries

but earth and air

*

Geoff Sawers

Pioden

oppressive heat

damselflies lay eggs

in a cloud

*

polona

Pebbles of truth

We toss pebbles up into the sky,

watch bats swoop down;

this is her first lesson in dishonesty,

repeat, repeat, repeat.

*

Rebecca Schumejda

Rebecca Schumejda

Forty years flirting...
sitting with the Green Tara.
Never getting laid.

*

Tom Chapman
SV Tatoosh

On The Derivation Of Slapstick Comedy And The Early Silent Black And Whites

my wife took off on me in the middle of the night.
no dear john letter. nothing stuck to the refrigerator. no explanation.
just a simple banana peel left by the foot of the bed. that's not so funny. is it?

*

Joseph Reich

The sun, threaded with clouds,
shines hazy across the parking lot.
Desert wind ruffles the birds.

*

James Brush
Coyote Mercury

fallen papaya tree

knocked over by wind or vandals
the neighborhood birds,
magpie jays and yellow winged
blackbirds, land in our yard
to feast and sing

*

Nina Buck

Imperious seagull turns
his head as if on a pivot, and shits. The harbor
is now his.

*

Megan Kennedy

You Are Useless

dead beetle
seethes with ants
mockingbird shifts songs

*

T.D. Ingram

T.D. Ingram

The yawp of a cat
Brings me back to a moment
Where the candles have burned themselves away.

*

Rebecca L. Brown

Bewildering Circumstances

The sky at night is a desert of stars.

*

Richard Cody
RCodywrites

A HOLDING PATTERN

Without the ground there is no tenuous
scent of home. Without the ground
no self crumbles from its weight.

*

Sean Akerman

new glasses: all of my mistakes now painfully clear

*

d. f. tweney

tinywords
(first published on Basho's Road)