Jackie Chou

winter sparrow 

the cashier declines 

my food stamp card 

—Jackie Chou

Steve Van Allen

seven starlings 

on a wire 

melting in november rain 

—Steve Van Allen

Jerome Berglund

tipsy snow 

whenever a car passes 

I flinch

—Jerome Berglund

Joshua St. Claire

precession of the equinoxes 

my hands reach 

middle age

—Joshua St. Claire

Joanna Ashwell

votives 

by the window 

early shadow

—Joanna Ashwell

night chrysalis 

lost in the snow 

forest stars

—Joanna Ashwell

Tuyet Van Do

red tinsels 

on neighbor's fence 

wind chimes tinkling 

—Tuyet Van Do

j rap

birthday song 

a balloon floats 

above the moon

—j rap

inside his silence an echo of dad’s

—j rap

descending the peak 

by full moon 

rock fall

—j rap