Dear Readers,

Happy 250 years America! 

I just found out that After/Thought Literary has closed its doors. They will not be posting their June issue (or my poems). So, I have decided that rather than sending my work back out, I'm going to post it here! 

I hope you are all well, or well enough on this day of celebration.

Jan ❤️

A New Order

Today collects dust.

Like rain it fills cracks,

dilutes dreams.

All of the magical words

disappear

into a thick stream -

a new consciousness.

 

Yet nothing ...

feels like tomorrow.

  

 

Probabilities 

 

I tell you about

the stars and you name them

like numbers -

trigonometry I don't understand

or geometric probabilities of war.

 

The minutes move

from a day. Hours fall

like seconds

into a new paradigm shift.

 

Words spread across world history

written

the likes not seen

for centuries.

 

(c) Jan Darrow 2026 

              Photos: / Pixabay