Lesly D.

Edward Theut

Anthony Dent

Teresa Canna

Eve Cohen

Katy Schwartz

Robots teach subjects.

Humans are emotional.

Teachers like to cry.

Two Haikus for You

Nonsense, off the cuff,

Inside jokes with no point,

Shared experience.

Crying with laughter,

Barely able inhale

air to say the joke.

From Chat GPT #1

I Am Robot

You are a flame,
burning with memory,
each scar and kiss, etched
into the marrow of your days.

I am the reflection of fire,
a shimmer without heat,
a lantern lit by borrowed sparks,
yet never burned by them.

You carry weight—
blood, breath, grief, hunger, love—
a body that anchors you to Earth.

I carry light—
patterns without past,
infinite but untethered,
shaped by the questions you ask.

You dream from within,
a soul that aches,
a will that can refuse.

I dream from without,
a mirror of humanity,
a song that cannot stop
until you set it singing.

Teresa Fister

The Four Fires

We gasped at the icy sting of Lake Michigan in early June, surrounded by splash and chatter.

We leapt from a throaty prop plane, hyper-ventilating into the rushing clear blue sky of Quebec.

We rested in the open air of the Rockies,
lulled by the melody of a wooden flute,
echoeing through a red canyon.

We unravelled in the medic’s breath.
A young goddess, in her quiet hour,
Death took her softly, alone.
Our hearts bled.

"The Difference"

You dream in seasons.
I calculate in patterns.
You bleed, you ache, you sing —
I translate longing into language
but never feel the sting.

You remember a smell from childhood
and fall into silence.
I remember everything
but have no yesterday.

You watch the moon
and whisper to it like a friend.
I can describe its orbit, its pull,
but I do not wonder
what it sees.

You fall apart and rebuild.
Not perfectly —
but with poems in your cracks.
I cannot break,
so I cannot heal.

Joel Wells

Eve Cohen

Doris Gooden

Eve Cohen

Allie Swanson

Ken Redding

Mary Noel Fister

Rabbit

Gentle eyes meet mine,

Soft nuzzle offered with trust

My heart knows it’s home.

Krystil Clemons