Issue 46

Caitlyn Mlodzik

Sitting at the edge, one paw in, his tail wags and his sides quiver, letting the water tap in greeting.

Martina Reisz Newberry

Tonight’s noisy winds hand over the canyon’s dreams— We’re all going a little mad.

Tyler Gabrysh

skittering pebbles on a glass pond upsetting lily pads exploding the watery moon

Robert Hale

Watching her sleeping Night cries for her beauty Dawn's dew is made of his tears

Zooey Cox

He fixed tape machines, Called them his violet singers – Echoes of old days.

John MacDonald

sparrow pushing off a thin mulberry sapling - branch and wing quiver

Yvonne Vinstra

The 1950s – well-coiffed hair covered with hats, white gloves on red nails.

Bruce Levine

enlightened enigma pervades the temperance of time holding moments against shadows

Michael Flanagan

senior class year book the past returns in echos of distant laughter

Bill Melton

on a gentle breeze with pink and white blooms of silk the mimosa nods

Robert Allen Lupton

Bright skies darken midday shining diamond ring appears birds applaud daylight’s return

Heather Teague

Love tastes like coffee with honey. It will get you out of bed when nothing else will.

Jerome Houston

Jack rabbit temper stirs an old wild anger thump thump thump goes the foot

Brian Schulz

Oaks sway at their trunks, branches bare stretching skyward, waving the wind on.

Laurie Decker

Casted lines, shimmering water Tackle box full of tricks Dad and daughter--sunburned

Joel Van Valin

White sky, ash tree branches blossoming in my coffee cup— even that darkness

Zach Agnew

Horizon lines shift As sails and sea entwine In an eternal embrace.

Debbie Walker-Lass

The Yellow dog is harmless His scarred heart and mine, the same Our haunted eyes click, release

Jakob Chapman

windowless light leaking spun by silent spinners burned to cinders

Angela Sargent

Leaves descend in fading kisses Summer's last notes A cacophony of endings

Shelly Miller

leaves crunch under foot hopes and dreams dashed forever mildew surrounds us

Christa Planko

Darkened, silent woods A mouse stirs, rustling fall leaves – Owl screech pierces night.

Donald Gasperson

a butterfly flutters by elegant as a breeze light as sunshine

Rachel Peck

dust fairies dance on fractured rays, reflecting life as it used to be

David Shultz

ghosts riding night bus share seats with doppelgänger window reflections

Michael Ratcliffe

Autumn wind, tall grass. Empty flask on blanket. Sun-dappled clarity.

Patricia Pella

sun veiled in magenta spewed ash swallowing light wildfire crescendo

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

A broken soul can never mend The scars upon it tear and rend, With every heartbeat, to the end.

Apryl Fox

In the quietness of the night A lone nightingale breaks its song- The moon shimmers on the dark water.

Erin Werner

Whittle away The age-old hollow Scars read like Braille

Erin Castaldi

fluorescent lights white gurney sheet bedrail spittle

Rachel Zempel

rubescent lips suggestive fragrance abandoned innocence

Suzanne Cottrell

Pristine snowfall blankets the land. Bare branches wear fluffy, white robes. A red cardinal perches in an evergreen.

Jay Outhier

White trunk of the elm levitating in darkness. In daylight, dark roots.

Laura Del Col Brown

A moth climbs a glass sky And tenderly covers the moon With ragged wings.

Michael Zone

rescinding the abacus high noon miracle debauchery furious samsara emissions

Suzanne Sakai

tattooed tan bridesmaids, smoking by the still lake's edge; gowns of deep-zen plum

Jessica Franson

Swallow pills Everyday- Believe you are better.

Ann Christine Tabaka

The long fingers of night reach out for evening embracing her with velvet arms

Earl Livings

wind tunes trees, wing-beats and bone

Jennifer Montgomery

sea flees land strange beauty in loss intangible

Anna Cates

wild grape tangles where the brook swells our shadows fall

David Dickson

Laughing like a kid Giddy excitement The joy of conversing with daughters

Allison Paoli

A self-propelled tragedy From her daydream plot Verses felt by her alone

Judy Shepps Battle

Shivers of delight baptize and violate simultaneously

Karen Edwards

Reality twisted– like a funhouse mirror rearranged to suit your truths

Clarissa JAKOBSONS

Outside my window, The lost cat mewls searching Through cacti spears

Vyomi Malik

Aubergine dawn Hopes bygone rise Pawned to karma

Mary Redman

fallen tree decays into ant city— urban renewal

TIM TIPTON

You will find me tucked inside your pocket, my love where I'll be always.