BACKSTROM, BILL
BARNETT, BRIAN
BOWMAN, DEAN
BRASSEUR, JEAN
BRYAN, TANYA
CAMBERN, DIANE
CORJESCU, DAN
DANNUNZIO JONES, NICK
DANOWSKY, MARK
DAVIS, JIM
EHRLICH, JACOB
ELLMAN, NEIL
ESPOSITO, DAVID
FLEURY, LARRY
GABLER, STEPHANIE
GILCHRIST, STEPHEN
GILMORE, JAMES
GOLDEN, SYLVIA
HART, PIORRE
JOY, BERNARD
KEARNEY, RACHEL
KELLER, MARIA
KOJI, WILLIAM F.
KUINTZLE, RACHAEL
LAIR, MICHAEL
MARGETTS, JONATHAN
MINARD, JAMES
POPIEL, KRISTINA
S., PREETI
SCHWENK, MELISSA
SEYMOUR, JIM
SMOTHERS, SHIRLEY
STONE, ANDREW
WILSON, CONNOR
Piorre Hart
The band of gold on my finger
Has lost its luster...
To the golden sunset
Bill Backstrom
She left flowers on the hidden grave
Ever cautious that no one followed
Officially, he’s only missing
Bill Backstrom
Birds sing, soft then loud
Here I am, pick me, pick me
Spring perched in March trees
William F. Koji
Her lips were heart shaped
She was so beautiful
She sang love songs
William F. Koji
San Gabriel Canyon
Lives again with prospectors
Sifting river’sold
Rachael Kuintzle
The jewels we possess are costly and pure
but we paid for them more than they’re worth,
my dear.
Bernard Joy
I won’t ask you where the wild geese go
or what portion of the water parts from the moon
as you are you may still try to answer me
Sylvia Golden
Not a speck of sun
Tangerine tingles on tongue
Turns fret into bliss
Sylvia Golden
Chilled air like mustard
Creeps into brain ruthlessly
Clearing jungled head
Rachel Kearney
The rain becomes us.
We are puddles.
To merge.
Neil Ellman
My sister Jane and I behind the barn
we played with destiny
and were its toys.
Dan Corjescu
You see, I’m a poet
and I’m licensed to repeal
The Luminescence of the Real
Preeti S.
I nurture old sighs
Emptying an amateur mind
Of diligent smiles
James Gilmore
A wolf eats his prey
He dies if he does not kill
This is as life is
James Gilmore
A leaf falls slowly
It is transferred to the ground
Its life takes new form
Jim Seymour
after the scolding-
100 pound Lab
crawls up on my lap
Jim Seymour
barely a tug on the leash-
we trudge home together
in the cold, soaking rain
Melissa Schwenk
Oblivion by the sun would be easier
than if those spotted cheetahs jumped
the last foot of distance between us.
Diane Cambern
My soul will travel far tonight,
settle down beside you as you sleep.
Dream.
Shirley Smothers
Anger consumes me
Eats my soul like a cancer
Self inflicted hell
Diane Cambern
As if there were glass on every side of you
As if you could smash it all
and make it go away
Connor Wilson
A life by a river
no water in sight
some river you are
Preeti S.
breathing, standing tall
witness to timeless ordeal
forgive gaping cracks
Dean Bowman
Sleepwalking, spiraling Earth
Awake in your world of dreams
Where delusion feigns reality
Stephen Gilchrist
In our green youth
we climbed high,
limitless.
Bill Backstrom
Rabbit rings doorbell
Bear knocks then enters swiftly
Spring in the forest
Jonathan Margetts
Strawberries congeal
in plastic jars
outside an Essex station.
Larry Fleury
the spring horizon flashes
electrons meet electrons
sparking a handshake
Larry Fleury
Listen to the shyness
drizzle on Ash Wednesday
The day’s silent and I accept that.
Larry Fleury
The piano is melting
in a living room
somewhere west
Dan Corjescu
The skin dries while love fasts
breath becomes slow ice
a little boy wishes he had more hands
Jacob Ehrlich
Massaging my foot soles,
They are rank, tender and juvenile
like You, unwashed and lovely.
Jacob Ehrlich
Fall leaves lay silent on the ground,
only one pine branch dances slowly
before the whitewash sky.
Stephanie Gabler
ecstatic black cat stretched out
doing ballet in the sun
slithers on the asphalt
Andrew Stone
Plunge past the antique
surface of ageless flesh
into a sight unseen
Brian Barnett
dying leaves crumble
paying tribute to Samhain
parade the children
Brian Barnett
October skies bloom
dying embers of summer
witches in the wind
David Esposito
The apparition obsesses over the smell of
Roses and scorns at the shadow of steel as it
Cowers before marble fig leaves
James Minard
Like people, leaves show
their brightest colors before
they wither away.
Michael Lair
Love like nicotine,
you always draw me back in.
I’m unable nor willing to quit.
Jim Davis
sunning myself
on the patio, the dog
escaping to shade
Kristina Popiel
Single bee in a morning glory,
you’re a graverobber
in her purple marrow.
Kristina Popiel
Imagine the terror of evergreens in autumn.
Imagine dawn after infinite dawn,
the smell of decaying leaves thin in the cold.
Jean Brasseur
afraid to touch your love
letters soft from wear
I watch from behind the velvet rope
Maria Keller
As I try to remember
The stories you told,
I do not know you.
Tanya Bryan
waves stealing
away sand
to build their own castle
Mark Danowsky
mischief eve day
the last Moon flower blooms proud
night falls too early
Mark Danowsky
pet skunk’s first birthday
celebrated at Petco
pictures were taken
Mark Danowsky
mood shifts powerful
taking lives to life taking
wrong albums spell doom
Nick DAnnunzio Jones
Seattle Sundays
Dream farmers seeding the clouds
Produce rainberries