smashed antique
yet another shard
finds
my foot
James Penha
angry july
destroys everything alive
an inanimate
prayer for
gracious
August
Zdenka Mlinar
ljutiti srpanj
ruši sve živo
i neživo
molitva za
milostivi
kolovoz
Zdenka Mlinar
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
ghost
koi—
never running
with the crowd
Tony Williams
*
weeds
our
friendship
neglected
Tony Williams
early
August now—
the fly on the bathroom wall
has been there
all night
J.
D. Nelson
looking so peaceful
her final visit
to
the beautician
Wanda Amos
*
winter chill…
a
sudden inward breath
cuts the lifeline
Wanda Amos