Cold Moon Journal

i ntoxicating giddy fragrance of mock orange brings thoughts of springtime to my still cold heart Pat Geyer

ship masts in a windstorm the way we keep each other at a distance   Reid Hepworth

n ew beginnings the smoke screen of fireworks Adrian Bouter

sunrise shadows fall away like egg shell a lake is hatched John Grey

winter chill your silence echoes off the moon Jim Niffen

shadow play across the cornstalks one outline passes another Jerome Berglund

morning stars… kicking salt across an icy path Tony Williams *   stiff with cold the tarpaulins crackle in their hands Tony William...

old button filling each hole with new thread Kimberly Kuchar

dandelion fluff trying not to take gravity too seriously Keith Evetts

daybreak cows head to the fields jingle of bells Sreenath   *   i travel distant places discovering my inner spaces Sr...

laid off ... my drunken shadow stalking what's left of the night Chen-ou Liu * prognosis ... the weight of my friend's a...

jazz singer a gardenia like Billie Joseph P. Wechselberger * blues band the flash of sequins when the guitarist sings Josep...

broken radio driving to the sound of rainfall Chris Langer

My haiku—    the bulk of them    unseasoned M. R. Pelletier

midnight melody our cat walks on the piano keys John J. Dunphy *   backyard a squirrel chows down on my aunt’s fruitcake John ...

beyond the poems beyond the battlefield mother’s vacant gaze Arvinder Kaur

recurring dream— I tell myself I’m not superstitious Wai Mei Wong

tumbleweeds pile against the fence howling wind Janet Ruth * in my dream he climbs a ladder saying goodbye Janet Ruth