Issue 20

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Issue 20

POETS

Bickley, Sara
Blacketer, Melissa
Campbell, Colin
Casey, Joseph
Daemon, Daun
Disarro, David
Edwards, David
Ellman, Neil
Ferguson, Stephanie
Fitzgerald, Genevieve
Ford,sr., Arthur C.
Frank, Hannah
Fugitt, Bobby
Geurrandeno, Frank
Gillikin, Brian
Giri, Mahima
Gove, Joan
Grisetti, Joann
Guzzi, Deborah
Hanson, Christopher Kenneth
Hellweg, Paul
Holland, Sarah
Hughes, Anna
Johanneck, Zach
Keenan, William
Lanning, Rebecca
Lowe, Dennis
Malone, Zachary
May, Nancy
Mccooey, Ross
Mcnerney, Joan
Melton, Bill
Morgan, Christopher
Rousseau, Wyman
S., Preeti
Samuels, Clarise
Sharp, Cynthia
Wasilewski, Nells
Williams, Patricia
Yin, Anna





Cynthia Sharp




slender curve of moon
in the cool descending night
yin and yang at rest





Cynthia Sharp




eyelids gently close
butterflies visit in dreams
nursing two are one





Paul Hellweg




your blood fairy and
gentle dragon, Tibetan
bowls sing lilting praise





David Edwards




carefully reading
a book window-side midnight
snow's ambient light





Bill Melton




As evening light fades
Rabbit nibbles on clover
An owl's talons twitch





Anna Hughes




Tall trees are bent low,
Their branches reaching for earth.
Heaven is too far.





Anna Hughes




Red, yellow and green
Lollipop trees drop their leaves:
Only sticks remain.





Joan Gove




Rays of your essence
Stream through dark shadows... falling
On my face and soul





Daun Daemon




soft merino wool
magenta and vermillion
autumn's overcoat





Preeti S.




a child hides behind
these tender folds of wrinkles
clothed in ageless soul





Stephanie Ferguson




An audacious heart -
alight with the bloom of hope,
she comes as the spring





Nells Wasilewski




lovers by the fire
burned marshmallows forgotten--
consumed by the flames





Nancy May




in the break of dawn
a call from the cockerel
parades a new day





David DiSarro




Tijeras statues
A sidewalk corrugation
Bronzed faces, sullen





Mahima Giri




azure horizon
reflects in ocean mirror
strolling silhouettes





William Keenan




On still winter nights
the hunter stirs in slumber
to fawn's quiet sobs





Zach Johanneck




Impaired cries for help
Innocence preys on the weak
Wandering lost soul





Sara Bickley




Wildflowers tattooed
on Jenny's arm: coneflowers
like cigarette burns.





Bobby Fugitt




she smiles at me from
the obituary page
a lifetime ago





Dennis Lowe




Perusing fine words
Used pages like winter skies
Then, her lost blonde strand





Rebecca Lanning




Old oaks dwarf the house
where seasons change from shade to
acorns, leaves, despair





Melissa Blacketer




Ice painted trees crack
Power lines snap; the blackout ?
opens to starlight.





Melissa Blacketer




A flashbulb sky roars
Iced rain scratches at paned glass
Soft steam over tea





Brian Gillikin




Sun-like, his body
rises on top of hers; she
moon-like, gives him way.





Genevieve Fitzgerald




tiny explosive
green bursts rise from the grasses
fireflies calling





Genevieve Fitzgerald




one god for jonquils
jerrymandered borders and
coexisting truths





Joseph Casey




tick and tack of sleet
upon breadth of dying blades -
duck paddles through reeds





Colin Campbell




dreaming butterflies
in ancient red mansions where
leaves now flutter by





Colin Campbell




borneo monsoon
in evergreen memories
when thunder returns





Zachary Malone




winter snow falling
two crows then three like black snow
hopping on a tree





Frank Geurrandeno




I am white canvas
and you are electric blue
the spark of my all.





Christopher Morgan




when you fall asleep
watching your ceiling tear, split,
look for my spotlight





Anna Yin




along the railway
wherever eyes encounter
forget-me-nots blue





Joan McNerney




What does this cat think
strumming his tail with such ease
to the fugues of Bach?





Neil Ellman




yesterday's children
silent ghosts of old New York
walk cobblestone streets





Neil Ellman




at The Dakota
Rosemary's Baby was born
Lennon lived and died





Ross McCooey




Imprints in cold grass:
shadows of idle bodies
once lost in the sun





Neil Ellman




graffiti artists
paintings hung on storefront walls
Chelsea galleries





Ross McCooey




Fluid cells of sky
bring concrete vistas to life
in speckled portraits





Deborah Guzzi




alone the swan drifts
in the shadow of the waves ?
the oar drips water





Christopher Kenneth Hanson




Grass blades wilt here now
Cold shade in a winter haze
Moon peeks through bramble.





Daun Daemon




November iris
springtime blue in autumn cool
petals quivering





Arthur C. Ford,Sr.




Waves bring messages,
Mankind waits along the beach,
Those of peace still drown.





Sarah Holland




Kintsugi, I am
Broken no longer, my cracks
Healed and sealed with gold





Wyman Rousseau




turning seventy -
nevertheless - I planted
a jacaranda





Clarise Samuels




the garden roses
so still and calm at twilight;
no thought for the frost





Joann Grisetti




touching a crocus
the merest hint of new warmth
my breath in the air





Joann Grisetti




from behind the masks
their intense faces watching
the kabuki stage





Hannah Frank




Slow shallow waters
splash a small shovel to shore,
sandy castles gone.





Patricia Williams




summer wanderer
enticed by sticky sweetness ?
uninvited guest