Issue 56

Tanni Haas

We talk like actors Trying hard to remember Lines from long ago

Biff Rushton

In the white breathed morning love takes its place beside us, effortlessly

Debbie Walker-Lass

Seven days gone now, White geese line the horizon Melt into mourning

Elise Stouffer

Ships on hallowed seas Crest golden dunes of dark light, Songbirds on their masts.

Isaac Eustice

Snow-covered asphalt: The phosphorescent surface Of a cold, blue sun.

Maria DePaul

Anniversary Still holding hands A gleam in their eyes

Christa Planko

dazzling frosted limbs form snowy palace archway Winter's kingdom reigns

Alison McBain

frothed pond water flies on the lunch menu gulp! all gone

Robert Hunt

orchard morning dew your dazzling daybreak smile kibbutz of my mind revisited

Martha Christina

bird tracks quilt fresh snow

Natasha Vigil

Lavender scents, purple Breezes sway blooming fields Senses fermented

Robert Petras

Easter morning Hundreds of windmills signing the cross

Angela Sargent

Colorado snow banks Sun glints off the ski slopes Exhilaration high.

Nancy Gough

On certain Mondays, my life is beige and thick as honey.

Emory Jones

On a pale blue sky Flocks of birds are writing poems that clouds will erase.

Michael Flanagan

I stop and breath your name is on the stone but you are not there

Ruchi Chopra

bamboo sprouts roots store-bought vase urban life aesthetic

Douglas Lanzo

sun umbrella twirls in golden radiance of bamboo sunlight

Roger Moffitt

distant moon yearning for her love a child's cry

Paul Telles

The gulls flee inland just before the thunderstorm. I will get past you.

Sarah Deranleau

Before the violence, Fist-sized holes in the drywall, You were just a girl.

Didimay Dimacali

maple leaves rustle in the breeze shadows left behind

Jennifer Smith

A touch, a reflex made in fear. Hands held together like in a past dream, broken apart like a nightmare.

Stephen Curro

buzz of cicadas cool lemonade kisses my lips

Melissa Laussmann

rushing water the sound of yesterdays flooding the present

Brett Abrahamsen

Sorrow falls softly Into the ether Yet traces linger on

Monica Louzon

fish me out of the water, breathe stars into my lungs, and i'll light up your sky.

Ada NavarroUlriksen

in this great blankness I dissolve myself like white birds in a cloud

Julie Allyn Johnson

obsidian woods brambles and thorns, watchful eyes you will learn of fear

Matthew Perry

Harvest moon Watching the fire burn You turn to kiss me

Eve Chilicas

glass stones skipping across fern lake of tree shadows flickering moonlight everywhere.

Manoj Arora

winter sun- a fish swims near the surface

Laura McGinnis

Waiting, worrying, Knowing the phone call will come, Nothing I can do.

Rene Mullen

broken heart in every chicken scratch mended muscle memory with each replayed breath

Jack Galmitz

next to me the crow waiting for a piece of chicken I have so much more

Gloria Caviglia

bedecked in jeweled colors she offers her gifts warm balm for a chapped nation

Jennifer Montgomery

air smelling of rain dirt, green, dancing on the hill bright new life itself

Chasity Gaines

Broken bottle bloodied in Brawl of Life

Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes

Overgrown path my feet know well Prairie grass murmuring voices Small buds like a child's fist clinging.

Ayaz Daryl Nielsen

wind through the forest leaves sway and bow moonlit prayers

JR Vork

barn swallows tango effortlessly the orange sun sets

Alyson Rhodes

Monday on the moor picnic,shoulder to shoulder - chill dusk, chips and love

Jamie Brown

Clouds shroud the hilltops, prayer shawls across shoulders of old men.

Kim Whysall-Hammond

Sleep the blanket to thought A lover giving release Sometimes elusive, teasing

Jess Ptak

the far inner room us, tethered to the same star fill the space like home

Michael Crawford

Storm of whirling seeds Raining upon the driveway. Forests laid to waste.

Michele Cuomo

dead white tree above evergreens like fractured femur bone black vulture in its break

Mary Crane Fahey

Elegant pink wool coat, hollow carapace Hangs alone in her closet, motionless objet d'art in the museum of you not here

Pat Anthony

planter of pink petunias shaking without wind hummingbird soars away

Susmita Ramani

sunsets remind one all things must end what more apt end than a rending of sky pink-gold brilliance washing over earth