Sunset in the Woods, by George Inness

Cache

There’s a kind of meant to be
wearing in
I’m newly knowing of

Inanimate objects
avow their approval
while I’m just headed home
duo’d

The sun gets woozy and stars proffer scripture
Birds volunteer flight
but I think I’ve been fine

These kinds of parables have a floral motor
so I bouquet’d some initiatives together

It’s not much from me, really. I don’t do conflation
Neighbors charm me
curious
their festivities.

June 21, 2025




Further considerations

[poetry]

Glacier Kiss

By Tytti Heikkinen

Rime has settled on our wine fridge and the kitchen // island, making the quartz glacier shimmer in the // morning light.

[poetry]

Political Theatre

By Francis Dylan Waguespack

On the evening of Tuesday, March 18, 2025, the State of Louisiana, under the direct orders of Governor Jeff Landry, executed Jessie Hoffman, Jr., age 46.

[fiction]

Lock In

By Laura O'Meara

It’s not the gunshot that’s surprising. That’s just noise on top of other noise echoed by the cave-like walls of the bar. It’s the silence that follows. Shocking, complete silence. Then the screams that pour into it.

[poetry]

Haikus on Watching Love Island and Not Your Mom's Birds and the Bees

By Elizabeth Shanaz

A shaved-in side part // arrives with a new woman // who should not be there