Sliced cucumbers smell of lazy summer afternoons

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Mark Stratton
Radio Nowhere

Blue shadows shift over snow
with the swaying of silver-birch boughs.

*

Carrie Osborne

startled awake by snowplow scrape
she drifts back
dreaming of strange round men

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Angie Werren
"woman, ask the question"

He tried to read a long line of black birds on the telephone wire but the sentence they formed was largely indecipherable.

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Mark Holloway
Beachcoming for the Landlocked

Senryu Times Two: No Beer For You

my love means High Life
and a note on the doorstep
"Mexico. Good luck."

after last week's fight
I could head south and leave you
with two kids, no beer

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Crazy Coppertop
Crazy Coppertop

tryst

they made love
eight straight days

in all sorts of light
and even in darkness

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Carolee Sherwood
Carolee Sherwood

In her text, the "e" in glimps made its way in the sky"e".

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Jay Coral
BlueJayEye

Small trees in windstorms,
perfectly
swaying in time with the Sex Pistols.

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Joseph Harker
naming constellations

give thanks to those
who care to help
by cleaning the spoon
with their tongues

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Katy Acheson
somethingkaty

empty bowl of soup,
celery
left behind

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Diana Murray

on smartphones
two girls sit side by side--
social introverts

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G.R. LeBlanc
Reflective Ink

I'm tuning into static
on every TV, every radio I find,
because somewhere in the white noise
is the sound of your voice.

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mr oCean
The Electric oCean

Crushed

I trickle handfuls
of myself into your tea
and watch hopefully.

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Jenny Adamthwaite
From the Living Room

He watches her get into the car that isn't hers, and follows when she drives. He'll cut her off at the fork. Loot the lot of it.

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S. Kay
S. Kay

Air conditioning units on stilts:
squat frogs blinking the sky
for the mother ship.

*

Jessica Otto

sycamore stands nude
raising clavicles / spreading phalanges
grasping for cloud cover

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Angie Werren
woman, ask the question

the ceiling fan spins
above the dank hotel room
roach carnival ride

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Eric T. Marin
Musings and Meanderings

Mist swirls grey, heavy,
Flash! Red triumph: robin’s breast
Piercing the sky.

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Emily Rose Cole
Emily Rose Cole

Even in Australia
the kookaburra’s cry
makes me long for Australia.

(after Basho)

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Jon Wesick

ignoring the stop sign
a truck halts for
goslings crossing the street

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Andrea Vlahakis
Andrea Vlahakis

Trees walking (after April Bernhard)

approaching
untrussable
as angels

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Michele Pizarro Harman

Könnten wir die Eisrunen
an dem Fenster lesen,
hätten wir
keine Geheimnis mehr.

(If we could read the glyphs
frost-etched on the glass,
there would be
no more secrets.)

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Joseph Harker
naming constellations

long rain before dawn
I lie on my back in bed
and soak up the sound

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Geoff Sawers
Pioden

How cruel now are those
madeleines of memory
that once seemed so sweet

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Ken Head

broken fence
cow staring at horse
horse staring at cow

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Andrea Vlahakis
Andrea Vlahakis

Fireflies

Embers of tossed cigarettes
thrown over cold shoulders.

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Daniel Romo
Peyote Soliloquies

rain streams in muddy sidewalk rivers
she says everything smells like worms

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Angie Werren
woman, ask the question

Waning Winter

I smell fried hot dogs
on the winter wind

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Mark Stratton
Radio Nowhere