zipping our rain jackets
to
the chin
frog song
Louise Hopewell
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
trailside
daisies
my fingers itch
to pick them
Susan Lee Roberts
*
gnarled
branches
battling to be seen—
family tree
Susan
Lee Roberts
Fruit from a fruit stand.
Green mango on the windowsill
Ripens
perfectly.
Deby Cedars
I
thunder
down the dirt road
he chases dust
from the
wrong car
for one more kiss
Pris Campbell
jasmine moon –
the pond reflecting me
inside
your arms
Steliana Cristina Voicu
waiting alone
in this cheap motel room
all night long
the vacancy sign
blinks
on, blinks off ...
Chen-ou Liu
Spirits entangled
in the cobwebs of tortured
memories – my
past
Lorraine Caputo
*
A
thousand shards of
Art Deco lamp glass scattered
across
the dusk sky
Lorraine Caputo
as
if a satellite
could replace a full moon . . .
machine-gun
dreams
Alfred Booth
*
what
does
a machine know of awe?
the Milky Way
Alfred Booth