summer sunset
eight crows
why
did I count them
Daniel Birnbaum
springtime—
ripples of
reflected sky
in every puddle
Andrew Markowski
*
afternoon lull
the distant squeal
of
worn-out tires
Andrew Markowski
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