where the future meets the past lightning
Keith Evetts
slow dancing moon on your bare feet
Jim Niffen
urban tooth decay
Roberta Beach Jacobson
ripe avocado—
in its heart
a perfect moon
Barrie Levine
how tasty
after a long winter
sun-melted butter
Maya Daneva
winter haze . . . I snuggle deeper into the
old photographManoj Sharma
curled photo
deep in the scroll
her forgotten self
a lullaby flows from the moon
Mircea Moldovan
threadbare . . .
my kimono and the moon
Veronika Zora Novak
holes in his story moths
snow globe shaken not stirred
alone
with memories
I have nothing else
Ram Chandran
the garden resigns itself to cold ... wild hibiscus
B.A. France
after the fire
we comb the ashes for
our lucky horseshoe
John J. Dunphy
shadows
walking on shadows
city sidewalkMona Bedi
scratched vinyl —
the same lies
on and on
Mirela Brăilean
on this lonely night
all my comfort —
vinyl music
a full lockdown year —
birds on the fence watching us
watching them
Joe Sebastian
kintsugi —
over the fallen leaves
a ray of sun
Ana Drobot
the way of the bee
I also seek
the center
Pat Davis
twilight
i unsee
his dark side
Mona Bedi
heat lightning
I clean my glasses after
cleaning my glasses
deepest sleep
tomorrow’s depth comes in an instant
ancient syllables
the forest alive
in birdsong
my every uncertainty
makes the sky empty —
falling stars
Vincenzo Adamo
backflip —
how a lizard falls
on his face
Devoshruti Mandal
end of October —
flocks of sheep descending
to winter
Vasile Moldovan
prolonged lockdown
a lone boy's face
against the window
Chen-ou Liu