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enough moonfull

she takes the bat

out of her ear

the astrology 

of a q-tip shutout

karmic waves

surf’s up

don’t I know it

all your fingers 

as olive brine

salty licks

if I could I would

blissfully dance

deepening spring

a cow becoming footloose 

in thick mud

dropped stitch in time

the cowl appears in newcastle

from grainger market

he carries the stottie cakes 

through a thick fog

prove it, prove it

the cartesian baker calls

sitting on mars

an evil demon flicks yeast

towards earth

Ray Caligiuri, Beaverton, Oregon, USA

Michael O’Brien, Helsinki, Finland 

a dishwasher can be a hard thing to get used

A dishwasher can be a hard thing to get used. The rowan berries start to ripen. I say to the chamomile tea bag. I make chamomile tea with a chamomile tea bag. I decide to dissolve a dissolvable multivitamin. I drink the dissolved dissolvable multivitamin instead of the chamomile tea. Let’s dirty all the dishes I say to the chamomile tea. We dirty the ones with fish prints first. 

a whistle of crows feet

do you finally sink without the moon?

neptune orbiting seven drain plugs

are you dancing this weather?

in virus air bluer sky fevered dreams

will half-baked clams reclaim the beach?

the perigee of muscle memory, blindly, of course

pointing towards the abyss - does this make my butt look big? 

that huge crack produces the kindness of strangers

might I impose for a whistle of crows feet?

lip balm, that's the night, buddy.

sergeant or colonel, lieutenant? 

beer battered the humvee explodes a chicken

is the last string quartet sanitized yet?

the gel like apparition of grandma's dinner says everything

brussels sprouts, you know what time is, right?

when last checked the calories left me behind

how does a slow burning bush receive absolution?

marshmallows - what the jumping cow became 

two choices wise guy - obama or omaha?

a surfeit of clouds blinks out the mind’s eye

Ray Caligiuri, Beaverton, Oregon, USA

Michael O’Brien, Helsinki, Finland 

make the morning

winter darkness 

too big for a house 

the lion

an outside dawn light

ants ravage the pants

moving hills

with uncertainty 

we make the morning

source of spring

bounced back by

the river’s tribute

upside down 

the crows pay in r's

the past murdered

a cow settles

for chewing ennui 

Michael O’Brien, Helsinki, Finland 

Ray Caligiuri, Beaverton, Oregon, USA

after the hunt
melting into a hanky
the marshmallow

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on a patch of frozen grass a frozen leaf

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the sound of wet tires on wet asphalt

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reconciliation 
you turn 
a tarot card

sticking out of the
‘fighting animal testing’ bag
a yoga mat

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yellow blue drying on my shins salt water

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god
underneath the houses
a river

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nightmare the heat between an ice cube and a finger

in agreement 

with the moon 

the moon

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the cuckoo’s call you become a statue

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