Cold Moon Journal

desert night only the stars cannot hide Mike Fainzilber

s ummer long wishing the pangs of love might end Mike Gallagher

wearing mom’s sweater her arms around me again Kelly Sargent

Kansas summer—    more shades of green    than I know the names of M. R. Pelletier

the dish runs away with the curds and whey while the cow jumps over the moon … Bonnie J Scherer

Be patient in change As a sleeping butterfly Awakes in beauty Mike Turner * Droplet of water Thrown from face of ...

frozen Niagara thawing in the spring . . . finally i yield to her love Sreenath

Used book sale poetry on the back table— I linger too long. Michael Minassian

zipping our rain jackets to the chin frog song Louise Hopewell

dusty flipflops another summer month passing me by Maya Daneva

tugboat dream to dream hour by hour Joanna Ashwell

autumn wind in her address book names Deborah Karl-Brandt   *   two of us another sleepless night spring moon Deborah Ka...

winter kiss — the snow falling slowly between earth and sky Laura Marino Trotta

Riverside the constant stare of the old fisherman Françoise Maurice

rolling meatballs her sunken eyes her dilated pupils Anthony Lusardi

initialism disease progression now four letters Michelle V. Alkerton   *   food bank line empty hands holding her place ...

zoloft down the rabbit’s hole Bryan Rickert *   wild hops it’s complicated Bryan Rickert

surprising our grief the cuckoo clock John Pappas *   day’s end pouring himself four fingers of darkness John Pappas