Issue #51, Fall 2023

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whittling knife

the evening

falls away

Greg Schwartz

Sykesville, MD 

 

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one more

dialect of silence...
snowfall

            Srini

            Rishi Valley, India

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morning light

she spades her grief

into the soil

Christa Pandey
Austin, TX, USA
 

 

lopsided cantaloupe

me with a soft spot

for summer

            Cherie Hunter Day

Menlo Park, CA

 

 

monsoon leaking

through the tarpaulin

pani puri

Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta

Hyderabad, India

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summer meadow

the path to school

almost healed

Barbara Snow

Eugene, OR

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ebony rose

the almost scent

of darkness

Ron C. Moss

Leslie Vale, Tasmania, Australia

 

 

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Issue #50, Spring 2023

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spring stream 

she lifts the sari 

just enough 

            Meera Rehm  

UK/ Nepal 

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early spring

a ponytail of radishes

in her straw hat

            Anne Elise Burgevin

Pennsylvania Furnace, PA

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dozing by the lake

waves lapping at the edge

of dreams

Michael Ketchek

Rochester, NY

 

 

under the poplar

two cows' worth 

of shade

            Carolyn Hall

            San Francisco, CA

 

 

moonlight through my window streaming live 

            Dan Curtis

            Victoria, BC, Canada

 

 

first autumn rain

the spillway back

to spilling

Bryan Rickert

Belleville, Illinois 

 

 

unraveling

sounds of the river

winter stars

Lisa Gerlits

Silverton, OR

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Issue #49, Fall 2022

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starless night

a dozen moons

reflected in the sea

Deborah P Kolodji

Temple City, CA

 

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snowcapped

the truths buried in

my mouth

Agnes Eva Savich

Austin, TX

 

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everybody

has a story

not to tell

John Stevenson

Nassau, NY

 

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midsummer reverie

sound of splashing waves

in my mint soda

Keiko Izawa

Yokohama, Japan

 

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the back and forth

of a willow warbler

summer dusk

John Barlow

Ormskirk, UK

 

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round midnight

Miles

before I sleep

John O'Connor

Chicago, IL

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Issue #48, Spring 2022

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deathly pale . . .

a lily comes out

from under the earth . . .

            Eugeniusz Zacharski

            Radom, Poland

 

 

migrants . . .

hopscotch

on the stone bridge

            Mircea Moldovan

            Jibou, Romania

 

 

caper flowers

. . . and I thought I was done

with this grief

            Polona Oblak

            Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

 

magnolia buds . . .

birds plumping feathers

against the chill

            Ingrid Baluchi

            Ohrid, North Macedonia

 

 

the ringing

of faraway bells

dusk in a field

            Ernest Wit

            Warsaw, Poland

 

 

lakeside walk

a seagull’s cry sneaks

into my playlist

            Tomislav Sjekloca

            Cetinje, Montenegro

 

 

windless dawn

a marigold wreath

sways in the kelp

            J. Zimmerman

            Santa Cruz CA

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Issue 47, Fall 2021

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glass lake

trailing my fingers

through the clouds

            Barbara Sabol

            Akron OH

 

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filled with sky

the voice of a child

lost in play

            Cora Whitmore

            Bangor ME

 

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ocean sunset

beach chairs folded

into jumbled stacks

            Julie Schwerin

            Sun Prairie WI

 

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the Big Dipper

tipped on end

petal fall

            Jennifer Burd

            Ann Arbor MI

 

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a spider works

the seam in the wall

night heat

            David Grayson

            Alameda CA

 

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starless night—

we wish instead

upon a streetlight

            Michael Dylan Welch

            Sammamish WA

 

 

space debris . . .

the newborn foal

finds its legs

            Ferris Gilli

            Marietta GA