By JL Huffman

unnatural glow

backlit mountain ridges

boros below

JL Huffman

snowbound day

chili heats

palate and soul

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

less traveled lane

Why did the kudzu

cross the road?

JL Huffman

senior living

rust and dent models

inside and out

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

new moon fog

ghost deer dart

JL Huffman

*

 

murder of crow’s feet

unlaughable lines

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

wood stove smoke

rises from the hollars

mountain man morn

JL Huffman

*

 

last bright ember

buried in charcoal clouds

winter solstice

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

contrail

em

dash

punctuates

the

sky

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

undressing

spent garden beds

fallow fall

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

weeping willow cave

shaded earthy asylum

secluded haven


JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

char cloth sky

ablaze with star sparks

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

skies darken


leaves cup to receive

sacrament of rain

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

copperhead

coiled on my doorstep

unwelcome mat

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

Montana

the Milky Way drapes

our big sky

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

morning mist

Sandburg’s pale cat

paws the windshield

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

twin fawns

vie to suckle the doe

Birth Moon

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

butter lamp smoke lifting anger on the wind


JL Huffman

Pushcart Prize Nominations

The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction and essays published (in print or online) by small-press magazines and book publishers. 

The poetry nominations for 2021 from Cold Moon Journal were mailed to Pushcart Press in New York today. Congratulations to these talented poets:

Yasir Farooq

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/10/by-yasir-farooq.html

Vladislav Hristov

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/02/by-vladislav-hristov.html

JL Huffman

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/04/by-jl-huffman.html

Barrie Levine

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/10/by-barrie-levine_22.html

Miriam Sagan

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/03/by-miriam-sagan.html

Stephen Toft

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/09/by-stephen-toft.html

By JL Huffman

turkey chicks

hustle after their hen

Hatching Moon

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

mating season

dead skunks stripe road edges

unhappy ending


JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

rooftop gardens

green oasis

amid the hustle

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

a white feather

dances on the wind

farewell words

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

polished and plaited

high stepping filly’s parade

haute couture dressage

JL Huffman