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 Aug 2019 OC
zumee
Mother heaves
a tortured breath
her lungs on fire
For the first time
in a long time
she falters
We kneel
heads bowed
hands clasped
in typing supplication
emoticon prayers
to silicon embryos
for signs of life
from e-God
gestating
in the womb
between our fingers
 Aug 2019 OC
Bo Tansky
Either Way
 Aug 2019 OC
Bo Tansky
The day dripping
Melting
Towards its final demise
The night uncovered/discovered
A cover for all the nights’ disguise
Either way
Making way
For the ticktock busyness of the fray
Time to dress/undress
Do/undo
Whatever’s underway
Such a lonesome stay
Either way
It’s ok
The where is neither here nor there
She said
She was
A crepuscular creature
Of neither night nor day
A potpourri of either way.
Revealing simply what she wants to say.
A reconciliation of either way.
 Aug 2019 OC
Kurt Philip Behm
Forty years a Poet,
sixty years a man

Calling to me distant,
my last Etesian

Time at best deceptive,
a trinity of masks

Present truth accepted,
the one not first or last

Drums now beating softly,
their rhythm stills my heart

My spirit free to chase the wind
—this world I now depart

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
 Aug 2019 OC
saige
Sure, I put the rouge in your eyes
And that apple in your throat
But relax, little boy
This is not a backstabbing
I am simply returning
Your godforsaken rib
i can rise without it
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