air is especially fancy tonight
violet and green
a beatific palette of dappled light
both seen and unseen
my breath is deep, mind is still, and now
all is colour and chime
a local chemical plant, take a bow
for my zen inspiration respiration time
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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a cockroach can survive a nuclear strike
but not survive being struck with a newspaper
and if i were the ghost of that cockroach
that had been taken out by a newspaper
i’d feel embarrassed!
i’d sit at the closed gates of cockroach heaven
waiting until their lunch break was over
trying to invent some heroic excuse
a war story for why i had appeared there
to not feel embarrassed!
in the garbage meadows of cockroach heaven
there are no newspapers, nor any slippers
just peace and quiet, and amazing grace
sung by veterans of the bug nuclear blitz
and none are embarrassed!
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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eyes taped to the sky
spin around a world of rue
the silence that hems
Text by TONY SINGLE
Image by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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gaslit & ghosted
then left to grey abandon
why were you not told
Text by TONY SINGLE
Image by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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translucent in dreams
the tree of lungs inside you
breathes true outside you
Text by TONY SINGLE
Image by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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unbolt me 