new year
our farewells
on the wind
Keith Evetts
i find myself
standing before the sun
stitch me
heal me
in the places i cannot reach
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
dancing filament
on divorce papers
the grand jeté amid his sign
Nudurupati Nagasri
Semeru
Mountain
volcanic eruptions
gray December
nation's
sadness
my heart is there
Nani Mariani
Christmas dinner for two
the click, clank, click
of my teenager’s chopsticks
Chen-ou Liu
newly-divorced man
his first Christmas dinner
at a Chinese restaurant
John J. Dunphy
paper and pencil
I leave a trail of breadcrumbs
for
the afterlife
Cynthia Anderson
I slowly stir
amongst ancient runes
where trees sing
their branches like harps
stringing
sunbeams
Joanna Ashwell
Days of Awe—
praying for a kind stranger
or angel
to place pebbles
on the family graves
Ruth Holzer
On a thread of scent,
weaver ants
climb leaves of insulin.
Dennis
Andrew Aguinaldo
dressed in kimono
the makeup of a ghost
Geisha girl all grown
Katherine E Winnick