tornado
warning
the comfort
of gran’s rosary
Mona Bedi
incessant
rain i let the old dog in
Mona Bedi
distant
thunder —
how we have changed
over the years
Mona
Bedi
I
learn to live
with imperfections
windfall apples
Mona
Bedi
wandering
through her room
to hold near
once-treasured gifts
she
left behind
C. Jean Downer
a childhood
in the peripheral
I convince myself
I will always
have
enough
C. Jean Downer
ocean
breeze...
together we walk
the life-long jetty
Susan Lee Roberts
onion—
layers
of
unexpressed sweetness
Susan Lee Roberts
football field—
a sparrow holds
the
goal post
Neena Singh
insomnia
stray dogs bark
all
night
Neena Singh
margosa shade
the corn seller
fans
her coal
Neena Singh
red chrysanthemum —
the
color of a memory
Elena Zouain
silence of the forest —
the deer’s bellow
reaches
the moon
Elena Zouain
forced perspective
finding pockets
in
the shallows
Jerome Berglund
thumb, forefinger
disentangling
the
leaves
Jerome Berglund
beneath
the clouded surface
glimpses
of movement
Jerome Berglund
the number of
planes buzzing overhead
now outnumbers
the clouds, the birds
even
the stars
Jennifer Gurney
days shortening
little by little
leaning
into fall
Jennifer
Gurney
lost glove
he warms her hand
in
both of his
Barrie Levine
phantom ring
on her left hand
stages
of grief
Barrie Levine
roundabout
we get through it
Susan Burch
peacock brooch
when did I stop
feeling
pretty
Susan Burch
yellow tablecloth
a handful of sage
starting to crumble
Chad Henry
midsummer dusk
rain on the skylight
the cat hears it first
Chad Henry
the silence
it brings
prairie
frost
Bryan Rickert
pretending
I’m a gardener–
three tomato harvest
Bryan Rickert
digging out
a thorn
this struggle
to remove
you
Bryan Rickert
God
god
a god
no
god
John J. Dunphy
visitation
the deceased and I wear
the
same color tie
John J. Dunphy
communion Sunday
our church's body of Christ
gluten-free
John J. Dunphy
walk as usual
but this time the magic
of
leaf shadows
Arvinder Kaur
woven
into my insignificance gossamer threads
Arvinder Kau
when
I was young
and a cat
and not some kind of man
Tony
Williams
an
owl’s
vowels
around midnight
Tony Williams
winter
lavender how I know you’re here
John Pappas
dropping blossoms
how little of this world
is
ours
John Pappas
Sunday Service
the way the Archangel
from the stained glass
scatters its light
on
your shoulder
Steliana Cristina Voicu
one more
night without you…
just the wind
and the autumn lights
grow
at my window
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Lush green, freshly cut
Golden rays caress the edges
Crafty,
plastic turf
Jiel Narvekar
hometown memories
I still hold on to
snowflakes
in the wind
Chen-ou Liu
happy or not
just to be as I am ...
patches
of fog
Chen-ou Liu
ephemeral morning moon
like so many things
in
this transient world
Steve Van Allen
