I love you, baby.
Let's hurry up and do it
Before mom gets in.

Love's only weakness
Is also its greatest strength:
It defies reason
- @Yojinbo:

A love so sincere
No loss to lustful wishes
Only you and I…


- Michele Langlo

love is but a wave
measure it’s height withyour heart
wave it back again
- June O’Reilly

Peeling your apple
in an unbroken spiral
our feet get tangled
-Chen-ou Liu

Haiku

BY ETHERIDGE KNIGHT

1

Eastern guard tower

glints in sunset; convicts rest

like lizards on rocks.

2

The piano man

is stingy, at 3 A.M.

his songs drop like plum.

3

Morning sun slants cell.

Drunks stagger like cripple flies

On jailhouse floor.

4

To write a blues song

is to regiment riots

and pluck gems from graves.

5

A bare pecan tree

slips a pencil shadow down

a moonlit snow slope.

6

The falling snow flakes

Cannot blunt the hard aches nor

Match the steel stillness.

7

Under moon shadows

A tall boy flashes knife and

Slices star bright ice.

8

In the August grass

Struck by the last rays of sun

The cracked teacup screams.

9

Making jazz swing in

Seventeen syllables AIN’T

No square poet’s job.