widow
more
than a decade in black
one less decision
Michelle
V. Alkerton
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
the life
of a wanderer
brief chaos
of white dust and starlight—
surviving
by chance
Ruth Holzer
*
flocking
around my candle
All
Souls
Ruth Holzer