Issue 58

Michael Mintrom

On Rittenhouse Square summer stirs the old world, tobacco smoke, jazz.

Lily Scott-Webb

Live in a concrete shell, To stay alive without the pain, Oh, do you feel dead at the roots?

Didimay Dimacali

world of dreams rainbows in the sky heart of a dandelion

Nicholas Gentile

exercising under the sun touching toes in tandem with his shadow

Sheila Murphy

The only eulogy is singing without sound

Eden Silverfox

Her soul is made of stars Forgotten constellations And the milky way of dreams

Carolyn Wilsey

shadows flash & the bird is gone a crow blinking across sky - blue ombre & corrugated clouds

Michael Johnston

Dark setting in now, Fireflies dancing together, Sparks of light and life.

Brian J. Alvarado

a treacherous dryer eternally queasy yet famished for socks

James W. Spain

A field of freshly fallen snow, void of tracks and imperfections, anticipating the setting sun.

Martha Christina

beside the splintered apple tree, two robins, rebuilding

Carol Casey

The winter is weary, ragged. Purity gives way to the soggy commotion of creation.

Kyle Shook

Flames fall from the sky Swirling, dancing down below Autumn's winds arrive

Catherine LoFrumento

leaving the hospital a sudden rush of rain covers my windshield

Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes

Autumn gales swing power lines clouds race the agate horizon late tomatoes yield to ground.

Francis Flavin

Night is no lady. Sweeping us under her skirt, She hurries away.

Joey Moon

Time Slows As I Freeze Your Voice And Grace Heal Spirits Angel Of Darkness

John Gaskin

Nothing left to say shouting war is over now we ran out of words

Bill Melton

morning till evening sunflower follows the sun in supplication

Debbie Walker-Lass

Brown girl scatters waves A shiver in her shoulders Clouds blanket the sun

Isaac Eustice

our young, stupid love under the same elm branches the same Autumn chill

Gabriel Smithwilson

taking up drawing again after so many years sketches of ghosts

Callie Cameron

Dwelling on the shore Flowers twine, candles shimmer Warm, calm, gentle night

Alvin Johnson

Changing leaves white water stream brown trout

James Schneider

I am the child you created, Carved out eyes and crooked teeth, I am the child you created.

Cheyenne Eubanks

I feel the music in my soul It comes and it goes Like the wind when it blows

Rebecca Kane

grasshopper grasping a pendulum of prairie grass

Lynda Zwinger

in all of us falling star-fire and light against the dark sky

Penny Michalski

His lips tip-toed across her cheek, Silent, deliberate, hypnotic And settled like a lit match onto gasoline.

Maria DePaul

Flickering dims Drafts shake a thin candle's glow Flame shrinks to the wick

Angela Sargent

Penumbra of words My voice tumbles noisily Upon the quiet page

Margaret Coombs

starling, blue jay, mourning dove share seed and sunrise side-by-side at the cafe'-al-fresco

Bruce Levine

Frozen memories Linger within The shadows of the past

Tom Barlow

One determined cloud drifts east against a west wind we all chase something

Rachel Zempel

electricity lips colliding forcefully the taste of regret

Michael Flanagan

it's a long way from the wreckage to the light but I take the step

Robert Walton

As starlight drifts like blown snow Past a waning crescent moon, The New Year dawns.

Sandra Wells

Snuggled in blankets Winter throws its anger down Safely I burrow

Stephen Curro

sunrise the waning moon a cosmic pearl

Taylor Scott

My spirit craves new skin, the grace of poised pines, and idyllic romance.

Chasity Gaines

Rosy dawn stretches across the sky Her breath, frosty She dances with the shadows of darkness

Kristyl Gravina

you thawed my heart with gentle words once upon a winter's eve

Deborah Kerner

looking inside the vessel gently rocking the lizard is trying to swim

Nolo Segundo

Awake! Awake! My sleeping soul-- let me but sense your presence in this flicker of time we call life...

Kelci Jones

Blackberry vines wrap themselves Around wooden skeletons As languid lovers entwined

Kelly Sargent

snow angel a sinner repents

Joyce Schmid

Our dear dog bites us. Sweetest little cockapoo. We'll learn to be unbitable.

Ayaz Daryl Nielsen

stubbing my toe I apologize to the rock

Ray Spitzenberger

panther lurking in starlight chilling beauty

Jody Larson

Birds in puffy down coats wait as low sun drifts above an eastern ridge, icy knife edge of winter.