wearing mom’s sweater
her arms
around
me again
Kelly Sargent
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 ocean’s wave
Apart,
yet of all
Mike Turner
autumn wind
in her address book
names
Deborah Karl-Brandt
*
two of us
another sleepless night
spring
moon
Deborah
Karl-Brandt
winter kiss —
the snow
falling slowly
between earth and sky
Laura Marino Trotta
initialism
disease
progression
now four letters
Michelle V. Alkerton
*
food
bank line
empty hands
holding her place
Michelle V. Alkerton
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