dad’s wake
greeting people
I’ll
never know
Joseph P. Wechselberger
10/21/2009
steve richmond, sober,
dying alone in hospice —
no
more gagaku
Tohm Bakelas
After Her Death
My
new lover grief
eats chips naked in my bed
and will not
leave me
even when I offer her
a summer house at the beach.
Cecil Morris
at the end of the earth
where
the sun goes to die
a souvenir stand…
Mike Fainzilber
Oh, what greater love
Than fulfilling hopes and dreams
Can
we give others
Mike Turner
wedding anniversary
husband selects a bouquet
at
the cemetery
John J. Dunphy
*
weightlifter
trembling as he picks up
his
newborn son
John J. Dunphy
wanderlust
a little cloud
drifts
away
Vandana Parashar
*
shooting
everything in sight
wedding
photographer
Vandana Parashar
heat dome
even a
cactus
keels over
Christa Pandey
*
sunset
the
old pond
glows pink
Christa Pandey
thoughts twirling
in the spin-dryer
of
ego
Mike Freedman
*
priest lights up
leaving cathedral
no
sin to smoke
Mike Freedman
only a few
fireflies dream
of
becoming a star
evan coram
*
wet snowflakes
together
sharing
silence
evan coram