Poets in this issue — click a name to read
- Alfier, Tobi
- Allen, Joshua
- Ardieta Gardner, Amanda
- Barnett, Brian
- Bowen, Andrew
- Browder, Clifford
- Castaldi, Erin
- Cates, Anna
- Chilicas, Eve
- Crupi, Brandon
- D'angelo, Nicholas
- Davis, Erin
- Finnegan, Mary
- Flanagan, Michael
- Gentry, Susan
- Gravina, Kristyl
- Hope, Yuri
- Jones, Erin
- Kamp, Lianne
- Katz, Albert
- Knabe, Martin
- Kulp, Mickey
- Lofrumento, Catherine
- Macdonald, Mandy
- Mcgreevey, Jennifer
- Melton, Bill
- Nesterova, Yuliya
- Relf, Terrie Leigh
- Rheaume , Gabriel
- Robinson, Jackie Maugh
- Rossi, Patricia
- Sacco, Linda
- Sam, David Anthony
- Sargent, Angela
- Schmidlin, Susan
- Seese, Leland
- Smith Silva, Dorsía
- Smith, Mare
- Uriah, Damien
- Van Hook, Eileen
- Van Hooser, Doug
- Vork, Jr
- Walker, Andrea
- Webre, Ellen
- Wilson, Mike
- Wing, Dawn
- Yap, Marian
- Zempel, Rachel
Amanda Ardieta Gardner
A grey morning dawns
Raindrops knock on my window
Are you coming out?
Jackie Maugh Robinson
Afloat in amnion waiting
until the pressing chaos
Splash! L’Chaim!
Bill Melton
rolling dark water
top of the waves blowing white
moaning of the wind
Bill Melton
contented murmur
chevrons flow from either side
rock in crystal stream
Mandy Macdonald
inexplicable little swirls & eddies
under the Tay bridge; further out
boats preen themselves in a steel mirror
Terrie Leigh Relf
revealed at low tide-
a pair of stockings
and a plane ticket
Eileen Van Hook
my wedding gown floated by
in the rushing flood waters
soon followed by my marriage
Mickey Kulp
Sea, cloud, stream, tears
Holy drops united
Circling forever
Michael Flanagan
rustic bridge
a reflection of water
enlightens the pine
Albert Katz
the Mediterranean is calm
and so very blue
since the tuna disappeared
Joshua Allen
The thunder rattles
and atop my neighbor’s house
a bird is singing.
Tobi Alfier
Honeycombs of clouds
call attention to the birds,
we stare at the sea.
Yuri Hope
You’ve got blood blue
running through your veins
tangles of time in your hair
Kristyl Gravina
Drops of soothing rain
Cleaning, cleansing
Life can start again
Clifford Browder
Eons in us:
Our pulsing blood
The brine of ancient seas.
Anna Cates
Fairy Lake
a magic bonsai basks
in starlight
Patricia Rossi
snow-capped waves
rhythmic crash on distant shores
majestic blue rhapsody
Catherine LoFrumento
feet in the sand
a sailboat gets smaller
and smaller
Erin Castaldi
Still leaves gleam
The fading sun makes love
To the river’s nightly tide.
Dawn Wing
Small seagull islands,
scattered across the water,
resting under sky.
Angela Sargent
Married solely in ink
I fling the papers overboard,
Staring as the water dissolves us.
Lianne Kamp
white phantom sails rise
above quivering blue water
silenced in fog
David Anthony Sam
Black asphalt, weak mirror,
after midnight rain–
false starlight, but mostly darkness
Nicholas D'Angelo
Red tears
Formed from misery
White and blue
Andrew Bowen
Redbuds float in blue.
Slate waters reflect their clouds.
The middle fork floods.
Andrea Walker
Floating in a river
of silk, look down into
a bowl of stars
Linda Sacco
Puddles –
reflecting rainbows,
broken by childish stomps.
Dorsía Smith Silva
sleek strands of rain
echo down
like fear in the dark
Ellen Webre
The moon smiles on my knife,
and I can hear from the sea
my sisters crying for vengeance.
Rachel Zempel
angelic sunbeams
interrupted reverie
water refraction
Eve Chilicas
over the waters
mirrored moon shadows dancing,
glints of silver night.
JR Vork
bridled rain
in a bottle
blue
Mary Finnegan
Stillness receives awe
and joy flutters in silence
while the river weeps.
Susan Gentry
Gentle summer rain falls
like teardrops on windowpanes
cleansing and refreshing
Doug Van Hooser
The compass of loneliness
Points to the ravine
The water runs through
Marian Yap
Keeping you alive in my heart
Time does not change
The number of tears
Yuliya Nesterova
Passing through, the night
left tears on blades
of grass doomed to winter
Mike Wilson
Greene, Iowa got 11 inches;
We wear thick hot summer air;
First day of autumn!
Damien Uriah
There is no truth;
she lies somewhere
in the sound of oceans.
Susan Schmidlin
The morning glory opens with the sun
Casting beauty throughout the day
And curls to sleep with the moon
Erin Davis
cracked vase
mother traces
her veins
Brandon Crupi
Striking flint with lead ignites anger,
exposing impurities in the human soul
and washes away an entire generation.
Jennifer McGreevey
Sun shower morning
I walk through the tears of joy
Drinking warm coffee
Leland Seese
fall ukigumo
leaves ablaze like clouds on fire
speak o burning bush
Mare Smith
Reflecting on you
Ripples flow over the stream
Mourning, floating tears
Erin Jones
Long day hard won
Dust, sweat, summer heat
Heading home
Brian Barnett
feeling the power
fighting against the rapids
wary of the bears
Gabriel Rheaume
The fog is a smudge
Between the lake
And the sky
Gabriel Rheaume
Glowing moonlight reflection
On the lake
A pale celestial body
Martin Knabe
Long red straws of hair
twirling on my white bed sheets
as nature whistles.