before I
can whistle rape
Susan Burch
summer wind
bustling through the blackberry brambles
a
pileated woodpecker
Paula Sears
above the thunder
the tree
of
five thousand years
Mike Fainzilber
*
after the rains
a haunting silence
nothing
left to say
Mike Fainzilber
Sunday morning —
the bawl of a fruit vendor
wakes
me up
Debarati Sen
*
mountain peak —
this ego
between
us
Debarati Sen