Sample poems

from recent issues

 
  1.     Issue #25, Fall 2010


    1. rain all day
      I carve the darkness
      from a peach

    2.     Marilyn Appl Walker


    1. a shadow under the pier
      what it is
      and isn’t

    2.     Francine Banwarth


    3. sudden frost
      the faint smell of mothballs
      on the sweater that fits

    4. C.William Hinderliter


    5. childhood memories
      light from one side
      of the moon

    6.     Jo McInerney


    7. Arcturus
      a pinecone glows
      in the campfire

    8.     Allan Burns


    9. all that I want —
      dawn fills the canyon
      with sky

    10.      Melissa Spurr




  1.      Issue #27, Fall 2011


        this life together
        on the mountain our footprints
        fill with snow

    1.          J. Zimmerman


    2. spring melancholy
      I cut my tofu
      smaller and smaller

    3.     Fay Aoyagi


    4. another star
      in the night sky . . .
      this year of growing older

    5.     Angela Terry


  1.         magnolias  the one not in bloom

            P M F Johnson


    1. leaf burst . . .
      the woodpecker’s vent
      in the sun-drenched wood

    2.     John Barlow


    3. graveside
      feeling the sun
      on my back

    4.     Bill Kenney


    5. toys
      my father couldn’t fix
      summer rain   

  1.     Aubrie Cox




  1.      Issue #26, Spring 2011


        scattered showers
        the river full
        of somewhere else

    1.          Michele L. Harvey


    2. his suicide
      how sleet slices
      into soft ice

    3.     Shimi


    4. twilight deer graze
      in the fold of a hill
      blooming mustard   

  1.     James Chessing


    1. end of summer
      a swimmer
      dries her feet

    2.     Joseph M. Kusmiss


    3. bruised apples
      he wonders what else
      I haven’t told him

    4.     Melissa Allen


    5. the documents
      all signed
      winter rain

    6.     Roland Packer


    7. things you just know skunk

    8.     John Soules