fast food two point oh

bytes are the new calories

social media feast

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Peter Lindsey

Peterwo.oh's Blog

alone
in spring moonlight
I long for
autumn winds

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Chen-ou Liu

Poetry in the Moment

Wide

sweep of fallow

field.

The earth turns

back

another year.

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Tom Montag

The Middlewesterner

A large moth hits the kitchen light, startling us both. It lets me cup it in my hands and carry it back into the warm drizzly night.

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polona

In the hospital he became confused. ‘I don’t want to live here!’ he said, clutching my arm. ‘I want to live at home with you!’ His eyes were big and dark.

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Rosemary Nissen-Wade
Life Magic

FOUR-FOOT A. R. SKEFFINGTON

Four-foot A. R. Skeffington
walks up Wall Street to his office.

He tries to dignify himself
with pricey suits and jewelry.

They don't fend off a Great Dane curious
about the toy breed human.

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Robert Laughlin

prairie flood --

an upended cow

floats down river

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Richard Stevenson

alas only heaven under the toenails of teetering saints

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Ivan P.

Birds or Fish

post-rain

drops on petals

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Marcel Peltier

Moments ouverts à la poésie

From the daze of his rehab center days, my father spoke a poem--
    Listen, I want to tell you something:
    I want you to go soon
    because it's getting dark
    and you need to get some sleep.

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Andrea Dulberger

Clifton Hill station

The old Chinese man

daintily walks a tightrope

along the platform's yellow line,

his umbrella as his balancing pole

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Rosanne Bersten

Rosanne's Lounge

Love Has Left Me Alone

good for the art.
bad for the heart.

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Mike Meraz

'I'm out of my mind'

Outside William Hill
A half-naked, sunshine drunk
Bubble-headed girl
Cries 'I'm out of my mind'

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Dawn Evans

Under every lake
hides
the opposite of the sky.

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Joseph Harker

Fifteen minutes into class,
Josaphat flips on his shades.

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Nina Buck

Air

Air has feeling now. Releases

in stitches. Splits nerves

before it rearranges

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Steven McLachlan

Ale bottle, the same color
as my copper bathtub.

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Megan Kennedy

You Are Useless

snail trails shine
jigsaw the sidewalk
mackerel sky

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T.D. Ingraham

T.D. Ingraham

blue sky
on a light breeze
summer's perfume

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Melanie Bishop

gazing upon the moon
blazing in the ink-black night
I yearn for
the days before I was born

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Chen-ou Liu

Poetry in the Moment

It is always sunset in her eyes.

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mr oCean

The Electric oCean

No terrible wind
seeks to demolish my house
but the house of dreams
where a silver moon endures
keeps my small heart moving on

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Dharmavidya
David Brazier

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(after Izumi Shikibu:
It is true,
the wind blows terribly here -
but moonlight
also leaks between the roof planks
of this ruined house.)

green tea, clear glass cup
my morning ceremony
solace before work

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Armando H. Corbelle

Buzzards tiptoe
around the possum.
Leaning towards foreclosure.

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Tom Chapman
SV Tatoosh

Man Killed After Dog Urinates On Neighbor's Lawn

that's some pretty deep shit...

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Joseph Reich

Salted trees die slow gray
along the hurricane highway.

A black waterline stretches
miles across lifeless woods.

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James Brush
Coyote Mercury

Janis Joplin Lullaby

listen now, little one
to the only lyrics I know
I'll sing the Mercedes Benz song
buzzed on caffeine and cookie dough

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Windi Padia
Crazy Coppertop

STUDENT

Lessons in a day: a scythe's purpose,
the proper burial of the stove's ashes,
the cadence of a cicada song.

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Sean Akerman

A Gift

Pink sock in orange cup
Curled like a precious shrimp

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Dawn Evans

La tire d'érable
chatoie à la fin du crépuscule,
cuivre fondant réfléchit
la lueur clémente.

(Maple taffy
catches the last of the sunset,
melting copper refracting
the merciful light.)

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Joseph Harker

Boy in his diaper
clutching a white chicken in the
dense July night.

God bless the State of Kentucky.

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Caitlin Foster