Nancy Byrne Iannucci ~ JOHN HUGHES

John Hughes               — to all the Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebies It’s February 18, 2025, John Hughes’s birthday. Altered Images is singing in my head. The fact that he’s dead doesn’t stop me from celebrating the birth of this man,  the man who understood us: The Xers, Gen X, latchkey kids. He was the Nicholas Ray […]

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Over-Steeped ~ Elizabeth Birch

Over-Steeped Morning calm spills down my throat, an antidote to replace jitters of coffee, aspartame of Diet Coke. Keep me awake on this morning, every morning, when sleep pulls like a lover  from an unmade bed, and let me continue  work that feels more important than me while disease leaks life from my neighbors and missiles fall  around […]

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5 poems by DS Maolalai

Down 45/50 down, depending on builder quotes. jesus: I could live for two years if I’m careful and have a divorce. but instead it’s two bedrooms in a square by the courts and disused market buildings all listed and tumbling down. and we can afford it and still go on holidays two times a year […]

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5 poems by AVA BIRD

thank you note to mother planet goddess gaia  thank you  for having us here  thanks for having me here on your place  birthing our asses  on your beautiful planet  thanks thank you for all you do for us and more  please tell the stars I’m sorry  sorry for the pollution and confusions the stupids, the […]

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4 poems by Wolfgang Wright

Miscommunication It was evident  by how voraciously she unbuttoned  my button and unzipped  my zipper that she had not understood what I had meant when I had said I only wanted a Platonic relationship. ~~~ Intimidation You don’t soon forget when you walk into your boss’s office and spot a shrunken  head resting on his  […]

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Drinking Coffee Alone ~ Allan Lake

Drinking Coffee Alone People I have loved keep dying. They lull you into a sense of reassuring permanence then stop showing up,  chatting, breathing, being. I accept  no blame, never said anything overly  offensive and intend to be here indefinitely.  But it’s not easy to replace the quitters.  Other people already have their quota of […]

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2 POEMS by Sabyasachi Roy

Moonphase The moon, with its unblemished predator eyes, hunts for the human heart. I steal four drifting poems— Your moonlit body floats in through the perfumed window of the sky. I. Jazz of endless desire plays at the pinnacle of the air. The world sways, unravels itself, Bubbles rise, hover, burst. The skeleton of a […]

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