Cold Moon Journal

monologue beside my mother’s grave I share the latest news   Paul Callus

Maundy Thursday bells we walk the local footpaths admiring poppies Vivien Eliades

old comb ... the orchid scent disentangled Samo Kreutz

wild grasses the breath of the wind In her light hair Françoise Maurice

a bandoned teddy his playfulness imprisoned by time Goran Lowie

tsundoku — the untold stories on my bookshelf Mona Bedi *   winter loneliness I gather the stars for comfort Mona Bedi

almost spring the bloom of plum blossoms across the street Wai Mei Wong

new calendar 365 mantras om on the wall Ellen Kom

When I hear our song I smell the summer rain storm From across the years Jennifer Gurney

swallowtail puddling— mom’s fingertips skim my cheek Suzanne Leaf-Brock

border checkpoint the sound of snow geese migrating Chen-ou Liu

mating season dead skunks stripe road edges unhappy ending JL Huffman

my echo in an empty room the way loneliness repeats itself Alvin B. Cruz

singing the fragments April showers Meera Rehm

dried branch the same gracefulness of its shadow Mirela Brailean

cold lake rain prattles insistently on palm roofs we will not be moved James Penha

a friendship request the belated bloom Yasir Farooq *   a rose reblooms the other raindrops Yasir Farooq

Beauty joins Chaos Both of them standing On the edge of forever. Maria Quernel