Cold Moon Journal

red glitter shoes one of her wishes came true Randy Brooks

texting her I reiterate crows Bryan Rickert * synchronizing our autumns long distance love Bryan Rickert

angry words on a crumbling wall — tiny flowers in the cracks Robert Witmer

creekside walk — I hear a new generatio n learning to curse Robert Epstein

m oths on a lampshade this blemished moon Jerome Berglund * liminal highway all the lights come on at once Jerome Berglund

tai chi reaching for the moon Mark Gilbert

rich harvest with the same shabby clothes the scarecrow Mirela Brailean

overthinking my need to over clarify Mona Bedi

chemo, leafless trees Mircea Moldovan

downsizing… my aunt looks smaller in the care home Tony Williams

beer garden— the butterfly’s unsteady path Mark Forrester

class reunion invitation on the RSVP card he checks 'won't attend' with the pen he borrowed from a prison guard John J. Du...

daily dilemma— comfort of the ceiling fan or hot cup of tea Monica Kakkar

first AA meeting a whiff of whiskey or all in my mind? Chen-ou Liu * after the farewell she doesn't wave back -- moonlight ...

can’t breathe. panic attack Timothy Daly

all the colours of windblown petals at the rave a hurley-burley of gyrating dancers Marilyn Humbert *   shifting um...

awaiting the cue for a grand jet é … the corseted breath Kavita Ratna

blood moon carpenter ants circle round the red dish Bipasha Majumder (De)