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Nadia Arioli: “Sam Insists Only Oak”
Jon Bennet: “Petty Dreams”
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozábal: “Thoughts”
Sarah Carleton: “No, I would not like to ride”
Bart Edelman: “What Happens Here”
Marc Janssen: “Dog Days”
Linda Lerner: “Twenty-Four Hour Non-Stop News”
Anita Lerek: “Song for Blood Vibrato”
Jim Murdoch: “The Great Ledger in the Sky”
Timothy Tarkelly: “Long Night”
Robin Wright: “Nesting”
Purple Cabbage Glossy sapphire garlic powder, cider vinegar, apple, caraway a quantity of soy just shy of detectable I’m a bachelor and have always been one even as a little boy I had a black beard, a suitcase and a lonely heart but my mother did make cabbage with caraway and apple so I have a taste for it I sit at my small table with my potful of Eastern European history and eat my fill wondering what else I might be filled with had things turned out different.
About the Author: Jon Bennett writes and plays music in San Francisco, CA. You can find his songs on most streaming sites as well as here and here.
Image Credit: Russell Lee “Cabbages at roadside stand near Greenfield, Massachusetts” (1939) Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress
Roundabout
He was looking at a traffic map
thinking about his son
“Put a roundabout here,” he said
An anarchist in college
he read about the Paris Commune,
Mutual Aid, a lot of George Orwell
Then he had kids
“…those roundabouts take
some getting used to…”
and his son was named
after Jack London, but
now he was a Republican
a good kid though
He bought a house
and had a mortgage,
and was often
almost satisfied
“…in the end
it will work out better
for everyone.”
About the Author: Jon Bennett writes and plays music in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. You can find more of his work on Pandora, Spotify and other streaming websites, or by connecting with him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jon.bennett.967.
Image Credit: Wassily Kandinsky: “Circles in a Circle” (1923) public domain
As It Ought To Be 
