dead
possum walking
Darrell
Petska
Grandma’s meander
down
memory lane
lined with gravestones
Darrell Petska
dead
possum walking
Darrell
Petska
Grandma’s meander
down
memory lane
lined with gravestones
Darrell Petska
howler
monkey your bold faced lies
Bryan Rickert
long marriage
the silent treatment
of
snow
Bryan Rickert
mind excercise
learning new things
for
extension of old life
Manasa Reddy Chichili
monsoon flood
a bird's cage floating
far
from the sky
Manasa Reddy Chichili
dog park
all the owners
off
leash
Louise Hopewell
murky
pond
a child scatters crumbs
by the no feeding ducks
sign
Louise Hopewell
river
beach
overlapping footprints
of birdsong
Louise
Hopewell
mountain mist
the emptiness
between
us
Andrew Brindle
a silent falling
of late summer dreams
ocean
rain
Andrew Brindle
all the words
we left unsaid
shrouded
mountains
Andrew Brindle
rain
needles
the streetlight spotlights
a shivering cat
Anju Kishore
summer
holidays
a family of monkeys
on the clothesline
Anju Kishore
wind
gusts
a comb-over
flips
Joseph P. Wechselberger
Father's
Day
the annual reminder
I will never be one
Joseph P.
Wechselberger
a
squirrel nibbling
the tree's last pear
cold drizzle
Joseph P. Wechselberger
we destroy forests
to make paper and pencils
to
write 'save the trees'
Jonash Lepcha
I stop his lying
by
pressing mute
John J. Dunphy
high-end church
its communion wine
very
dry
John J. Dunphy
leaves changing
nearly as quickly
as
life
Jennifer Gurney
all along the street
in the quiet of the night
fireflies dance
as if
no one is watching
Jennifer
Gurney
returning
every year autumn solitude
Marilyn Ashbaugh
no
rush to say goodbye scarlet maple
Marilyn Ashbaugh
autumn
sky
a new galaxy
in the cat’s eyes
Marilyn
Ashbaugh
an
ant
with its own agenda
conference room
Marilyn
Ashbaugh
skip
in the record the wingbeats of swans
Marilyn Ashbaugh
hexagon
to square
my shrinking circle
of friends
j rap
coming
out of the storm I didn’t know I was in
j rap
dusk
a
single sheet of paper
swirls down the empty street
j rap
in my tank
rainbow koi swimming
in circles ...
the same question years ago,
to
stay or to go
Chen-ou Liu