Sample poems
from recent issues
Sample poems
from recent issues
Issue #25, Fall 2010
rain all day
I carve the darkness
from a peach
Marilyn Appl Walker
a shadow under the pier
what it is
and isn’t
Francine Banwarth
sudden frost
the faint smell of mothballs
on the sweater that fits
C.William Hinderliter
childhood memories
light from one side
of the moon
Jo McInerney
Arcturus
a pinecone glows
in the campfire
Allan Burns
all that I want —
dawn fills the canyon
with sky
Melissa Spurr
Issue #27, Fall 2011
this life together
on the mountain our footprints
fill with snow
J. Zimmerman
spring melancholy
I cut my tofu
smaller and smaller
Fay Aoyagi
another star
in the night sky . . .
this year of growing older
Angela Terry
magnolias the one not in bloom
P M F Johnson
leaf burst . . .
the woodpecker’s vent
in the sun-drenched wood
John Barlow
graveside
feeling the sun
on my back
Bill Kenney
toys
my father couldn’t fix
summer rain
Aubrie Cox
Issue #26, Spring 2011
scattered showers
the river full
of somewhere else
Michele L. Harvey
his suicide
how sleet slices
into soft ice
Shimi
twilight deer graze
in the fold of a hill
blooming mustard
James Chessing
end of summer
a swimmer
dries her feet
Joseph M. Kusmiss
bruised apples
he wonders what else
I haven’t told him
Melissa Allen
the documents
all signed
winter rain
Roland Packer
things you just know skunk
John Soules