Issue 14

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Issue 14

POETS

Aldridge, Bobby
Booth, Lea
Bounds, Sandra
Buckles, Sissy
Burton, Travis
Daemon, Daun
Davis, Kellen
Davis, Sydney
Dow, Jean Hagert
Edwards, David
Einspanier, Elizabeth
Evans, David
Fuchs, Anthony J
Galef, David
Gilmer, Monty
Hanson, Christopher Kenneth
Hawkhead, John
Head, Beverly
Higgins, Rada
Iuppa, M.j.
Jones, Gary
Larnerd, Frank
May, Nancy
Mccluskey, Eileen
Melton, Bill
Melvin, John
Orr Stone, Mauri
Pedraza, Miguel
Remy, Sabine
Rhodes, Daniel
Schmidt, Wendy
Sharp, Cynthia
Shropshire, Nikki
Spencer, T.f.
Traub, Terra
Wasilewski, Nells
West, Tyson





Beverly Head




sunflower's bent head
seeds scatter with abandon
cold winds herald fall





John Melvin




See them our meanings.
Clouding, crystalline. Living
heat spoken so brief.





John Melvin




Old Winter's brooding
nonchalance, assuming our
subjection to night.





Sabine Remy




Inky endless dark
Specks of light peek through the cloak
The heavens' beacon





Rada Higgins




fish, afloat on ice,
amazed at having landed
on a vendor's cart





Mauri Orr Stone




Leaves lose their lushness
Loosening their lustrous hold
Prey to fall's fierce winds





Mauri Orr Stone




Trees each take their turn
To cover the ground's bareness
Its comforting quilt





Mauri Orr Stone




A lone killdeer's laugh
Shatters fall's orange-gray night sky
Letting cold seep in





Miguel Pedraza




She's the most vivid
blur I've had the chance to love.
I focus on her.





Christopher Kenneth Hanson




A tall oak tree sighs
The roots lap up rain water
Gentle leaves fall free.





Bill Melton




A bolt of lightning
Reminds me so much of life
A flash and then gone





Bill Melton




Broken wing hangs low
Dove watches the flock in flight
With longing and fear





David Edwards




puddle of Slushies
drying on Summer sidewalk
ten lethargic bees





David Edwards




finally the face
in the mirror is not mine
empty whiskey glass





Cynthia Sharp




breathe reverently
in the misty afternoon
autumn's inner light





Kellen Davis




stars pulling their bright
covers over the hopeless
dreamflowers in bloom





Gary Jones




A pillow of fog
gently pressed the hurried port
A town drops anchor





Eileen McCluskey




A line of pine trees
bends in another blizzard,
wide boughs low with snow.





Eileen McCluskey




Praying as I hike
my shadow caresses long
reeds on riverbank.





Sissy Buckles




Eros Hotel, where
your whistling became bird songs
outside our window.





Sissy Buckles




Cruising in ragtop,
over my shoulder unfurls
a gold satin sail.





Terra Traub




Red leaves blow across
Iron bars and plastic swings
Falling into cries





Nancy May




The empty bench sits
In memorandum of those
Happy summer days





Sandra Bounds




Wisteria blooms
like a purple waterfall
cascading beauty





John Hawkhead




stolen rowboat at midnight,
her fingers trailing
through reflected stars





Nancy May




A drop of sunshine
falls from the weeping sun down
to the dying earth





Daun Daemon




sheets stir in the breeze
mother laughing in linens
a moment alone





Daun Daemon




cat sleeping in sun
soft fur slicked with blood of prey
sweet feral dreaming





Elizabeth Einspanier




Like a splash of ink
Black against the parchment sky
The raven flies past.





Frank Larnerd




Teasing red-haired girl
Bite your goddamn lip once more
And there'll be trouble





Nells Wasilewski




mermaid swims the sea
where pirates hear her calling
from the depth of dreams





Jean Hagert Dow




swinging on long rope
high above the bales of straw
laughing, jump, drop, fun





T.F. Spencer




yeah, law gonna change
the bus routes, ebony strength
booms in that white court





Daniel Rhodes




stop and speak to me
moth fluttering in my home
we both are lonely





Monty Gilmer




Twelfth day of Christmas.
Among twelve drummers drumming
was one little boy.





David Galef




Concrete pillars gird
bridges over former fields:
rice sacks filled with sand.





Tyson West




on the cluttered desk
silent in eraser dust
lie the finest words





Bobby Aldridge




Frankly, primroses
simply lack the ambition
to lead the garden.





Sandra Bounds




Skillful fisherman
the patient white heron waits
just biding its time





Anthony J Fuchs




Anna's hummingbird
beating insubstantial wings
defies gravity





Anthony J Fuchs




January rose
blooms in ice and bitter light
winter miracle





Anthony J Fuchs




Aurora rising
snowlight over burning hills
through bedroom windows





Lea Booth




apple on the ground
under the spent tree; stem leads
to its cracked, dry seeds.





Wendy Schmidt




Souls do not linger.
Love illuminates the way,
to heaven's embrace.





Wendy Schmidt




She swears a blue streak,
wears diamonds and boxer shorts,
and takes her Scotch neat.





Sydney Davis




walking the shoreline
i find a conch shell to hear
leave - it pleads to me





Travis Burton




A poem of God's
Dog-eared and crooked lettered
Feels misunderstood.





David Evans




Mountain storm passes
His heart flies north seeking it
His only sorrow





M.J. Iuppa




Snow's bright elegance
resolves a barren landscape
until it dissolves





Nikki Shropshire




Darkness deep in rest.
Predawn hum of ceiling fan,
above the silence.