Poets in this issue — click a name to read
- Bhattacharya, Ishita
- Blanke, Heidi Griminger
- Borczon, Matthew
- Botta, Nancy
- Brightman , Siobhan
- Castaldi, Erin
- Cipriano, Lorraine
- Corbett, Julie
- Cottrell, Suzanne
- Dau, Brian
- Decker, Laurie
- Deveraux, Val
- Fahey, Mary Crane
- Filipek, Agnieszka
- Flanagan, Michael
- Gentry, Susan
- Greer, Christopher
- Hedman, Angela
- Kamp, Lianne✦
- Kane, Rebecca
- Kapardeli, Eftichia
- Katz, Albert
- Lagania, Bryon
- Lauton, Julie P.
- Layaoen, Kayla
- Low, Marc-us
- Malik, Vyomi
- Mcmanes, Robert
- Melton, Bill
- Miller, Dean K
- Mullen, Rene
- Payne , Kim
- Poleto, Rebecca
- Proulx, Michael
- Qureshi, Maryam
- Rheaume , Gabriel
- Riley, John
- Robinson, Jackie Maugh
- Sakai, Suzanne
- Sargent, Angela
- Schwartz, Greg
- Schweickert, Cody
- Scott, Claire
- Shipp, Katherine
- Subacchi, David
- Teague, Heather
- Thorn, Jonathan
- Tristram, Hannah-rose
- Wasilewski, Nells
- Zempel, Rachel
Lianne Kamp✦
broken heart
us curled back to back in bed
at odds with our shape
Bill Melton
one long bony leg
disappears in still water
black-crowned night-heron
Katherine Shipp
My imagination tires of me.
I ride it like a pregnant mare
along the haunted moors.
Matthew Borczon
Sharp footed crows
walk across human skulls
the scratching sound is my reality.
Mary Crane Fahey
November moon transfigures pewter skies
Deserted fields, cornstalks cast shadows
Winds blow snow scent into bare places
Rene Mullen
Venn diagram
Circles of life and love
And the rare intersection
Gabriel Rheaume
red leaves
and rose petals
decorate the gutter
Val Deveraux
The sea awaits me
With brilliant shiny objects
To touch and return
Claire Scott
in the underbelly of love
in the shadow beneath the swing
grief unfolds leathery wings
Michael Flanagan
one summer day
leaking from the bailer
silage’s sweet tang
Kim Payne
Leaves falling as a veil
Autumn colors swirl
Loneliness has no name
Erin Castaldi
delicate breeze
dancing across velvet petals
opening night
Julie P. Lauton
orb on emerald blade
night gifts dawn
dewy drops
Heather Teague
This is what a soul looks like.
Dark words atop a bright background.
Humanity is composed of contrasts.
Angela Hedman
dampened thought alone
was an iron paperweight
on pale, feathered lungs
Angela Sargent
Bony branches, stark against
A fiery autumn sky
Birds escape in crisp formation
David Subacchi
plastic model cavalryman
astride a plastic horse
sabre never falling.
Ishita Bhattacharya
slowly awaiting
salvation from reality
ceaselessly dreaming
Marc-us Low
desire curls flamelike,
faced like a little tiger,
inquisitive
Albert Katz
it is so much easier
to write of betrayal
than of love
Suzanne Sakai
wind gusts on the side porch
fingertip keyboard click-clicks
-Night craves solitude
Hannah-Rose Tristram
Walking in the dark
high on mulled Christmas carols.
Parents guard and guide.
Heidi Griminger Blanke
Old age is like waiting for the bus.
It seems it will never come,
then, one day, it whisks you away.
Greg Schwartz
neighborhood pond
all the fish
we never caught
Vyomi Malik
Blackened boat
Rowing furiously
An azure cotton saree
Jackie Maugh Robinson
stroking
an aquarium stingray
too far the sea
Agnieszka Filipek
I watch the rain
washing dirty windows
my fingerprints remain
Jonathan Thorn
Peering into you
His eyes hammer into your soul
Exploding in light
Christopher Greer
Greedy little beast,
unsatisfied and longing--
always wanting more.
Rebecca Kane
Kansas landscape
beating boredom from the backseat
counting telephone poles
Bryon Lagania
golden sun
growth's scent travels on warm wind
ice trickles
Kayla Layaoen
Quiet, wind-shaken,
still and lulling back and forth.
Single tree, sparse leaves.
Robert McManes
I can't imagine real flowers
winter has closed imagination’s borders
and locked me a colorless cage
Siobhan Brightman
Through the mud blossoms beauty
But we must dive in feet first
Before we can find the lotus
Eftichia Kapardeli
The wings of a loving butterfly
The petals hit the soul
blooming blooms
Nancy Botta
An ocean of shale
couldn't keep lovers apart—
weeds reach for the sun
Suzanne Cottrell
Forest green leaves eager to emerge
Await thawing soil and longer days
Finally Amethyst, butter, white crocuses
Cody Schweickert
Sonorous bell envelopes village
In songs of flesh united
In cries of threnody
Nells Wasilewski
Sky of tangled clouds
unhappy and foreboding
pours out its wrath
Maryam Qureshi
Pale Autumn Moon...
Withering Face
Lonely Maiden
Susan Gentry
Winter storm warnings trigger
searches for gloves, skates and sleds
notices of school closings
John Riley
Inside cities I've walked country miles,
watched lights turn on and off
in houses perched on little lawns.
Brian Dau
The wind chimes lost
their root note and blew
unresolved against the sky.
Laurie Decker
Words spun, gossamer fine
whisper across a dancing flame,
love among the ashes.
Michael Proulx
Wind-blown snow
My mind a drift
Yet so focused
Dean K Miller
Now, just a moment away from your past
And staring into your future
You know where you must go
Rachel Zempel
torn journal paper
black ink— wounded heart archives
bleeding poetry
Rebecca Poleto
Leaves tumble down,
a carpet of red
crunching beneath my shoes.
Julie Corbett
reclaiming a family name
unrelated partners
reliably unconnected with a past
Lorraine Cipriano
He broke down her walls
rebuilt them adding windows
letting sunshine in