Sample poems

from recent issues

 

  1.     Issue #24, Spring 2010



    2. snorkeling
      a chasm as deep
      as fear

    3.     George Swede


  3. maple bonsai
    the small rock’s weight
    is enough

  4.     David Ash


    1. summer stars
      too many hometowns
      to claim one

    2.     Glenn G. Coats


    4. darker and darker
      with the light snow
      this emptiness

    5.     Bruce Ross


    7. simmering tofu—
      father asks where I intend
      to be buried

  6.             Fay Aoyagi


  7.         deep winter
            another night
            hollows the moon

            Jennie Townsend







  1.     Issue #23, Fall 2009



    2. moth dust . . .
      talk of going back
      to the moon

    3.     Chad Lee Robinson


    5. nil by mouth—
      peeling and dicing
      the moon   

  2.     Helen Buckingham


    1. cherry buds
      between us
      the possibilities

    2.     Stephen A. Peters


    4. seashore fossils
      a gust of April wind
      knocks my hat off

    5.     Brent Partridge


    7. lightning flash
      I count the seconds
      slower than my son

    8.     Erik Linzbach


    10. the bay current
      rivers around eelgrass
      afternoon heat

    11.     Andrea Grillo











    Issue #22, Spring 2009


    1. into the deer’s ribs the winter rain

    2.     John Barlow


  2. his easy lie
    another pecan pings
    off the tin roof   

  3.     Ferris Gilli

    1. violin
      in the pawn shop window:
      snow turns to rain

    2.     Mike Dillon


    4. day moon
          the dish rag
          wearing thin

    5.     Lorin Ford


    7. one empty bowl
      inside another
      winter moon

    8.     Joyce Clement


    10. long stone wall
      heart’s ease grows
      where I least expect it

    11.     Shelly Chang


    13. a whistle swinging
      from the lifeguard chair
      summer's end   

    14.     Jeffrey Stillman