Issue 31

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Issue 31

POETS

Anguiano, Kim
Austin, David
Austin, Nancy
Barnett, Sandra
Black, Grace
Blackman, Sarah
Bose, Ishan
Burgard, Amada
Burns, James Roderick
Chappell, Grace Hughes
Christ, Jim
Currin, Anne
Drobot, Ana
Frank, Hannah
Fulbirg, Chris
Gardiner, Tim
Gusek, Chris
Hall, Christopher David
Heyward , C. Z.
Houston, Opie
Howell, Traci
Koh, Jin
Lowe, Dennis
Loy, Helen
Mathison, Beth
Meador, Rob
Melton, Bill
Nystrand, Kasha
O'connor, Christine S.
Patterson, Melissa
Purtill, Fox
Qureshi, Maryam
Ranaldi-adams, Valentina
Rewick, Alyson
Robinson, Jackie Maugh
Scholer, Claudius
Scully, Ron
Shouse, Jennifer
Smith, Leanne E
Sprafka, Robin
Tate, Barbara
Thiessen, Loreena
Wasilewski, Nells
Williams, Pipzi
Yardena, Kineret





Jim Christ




showing only thorns
through patches of silent snow
dreaming of a bloom





Chris Fulbirg




gardens of roses
where children play together
the sound of blooming





Bill Melton




Dragonfly alights
Reed slowly bends toward water
Frog watches below





C. Z. Heyward




mother's calling me
one says, please not too far out
more says the other





Barbara Tate




auras of angels
venus sews seeds of sunrise
old as yesterday





Nells Wasilewski




chill winds laboring
summer dies a sultry death
the birth of autumn





Sarah Blackman




backyard gathering
under afternoon shadows
dinner plate upturned





Ishan Bose




relaxed on a plane
from here, worries look so small
gold metropolis





Valentina Ranaldi-Adams




the summer has come
with those blazing shades of red
flavorful cherries





Kasha Nystrand




Gazing at the clouds
Children point out many shapes
Topics of their dreams





Pipzi Williams




july afternoon
spent looking round old churches
damp palms together





Ana Drobot




Moving against time
From spring into the cold snow
Landing, clicks, belts off





Melissa Patterson




The deer watches me
watch her through my camera
sun fading the moon





Opie Houston




sprouting bamboo sprig...
will you be sad when you leave
my little greenhouse?





Sarah Blackman




children roll downhill
prickles of freshly mown grass
summer sour sweetness





Traci Howell




Moisture in the air
Leaves changing colors early
Mists cloud the Basin





Rob Meador




Burdened with moisture,
smoke plods across the mountain
clutching blue sky's hand.





Sandra Barnett




two catbirds mewing,
pecking at magnolia fruit ?
taste of Darjeeling





Loreena Thiessen




cascading snowflakes
a flutter of notes ripple
across the keyboard





Jackie Maugh Robinson




whales grown huge on krill
are but specks in a vast sea‒
surging tsunami





Amada Burgard




still the white blossom
reflected in the tide pool
my hand on the bloom





Helen Loy




Sun rips through tissue
Paper clouds to place his hands
hotly on my arm.





Claudius Scholer




Thunder, storm, lightning
Sitting on that mountain ridge
With monsters and gods





Christopher David Hall




Green fields thrashed to mud.
Clouds heavy as iron plates.
May?no mayflies yet.





Robin Sprafka




Beneath winter sun
I sit chin in hand to wait
For life to begin





Ron Scully




waterthrush alone
splashing in the riverlight
mustard seed sunset





Jin Koh




Rocks click like crickets
air like shimmering water
desert summer heat





Sarah Blackman




leaning together
three linden trees drip fragrance
carried on the breeze





Dennis Lowe




Thunder in the hills
summer blows through the dry grass?
too much left undone





Ana Drobot




bright sun, burning earth
bench in the shade, wind blowing -
life philosophy





Kim Anguiano




Trees in silhouette
Stand against the fading light
Bats begin their feast





Hannah Frank




The shaking branch shows
A glimpse of the near future,
The first orange leaf falls.





Jennifer Shouse




Monk on bench, Sea-Tac
Did not see me next to him;
Immersed in i-phone.





Maryam Qureshi




The fruits of summer
Visible before my eyes...
Feeling glorified





Anne Currin




Garden of wishes-
Butterfly lands- flies away;
Flowers stay planted.





Jim Christ




forests of dead trees
dismembered, reassembled
numb, leafless in paint





James Roderick Burns




Seagull cuts into
a bar of obstinate sun,
casts his own shadow





Beth Mathison




Crocus peeking out
purple, snow lined beds dark brown
rich with Spring's promise





Fox Purtill




Forgotten dreams hide,
memories touched and lost loves
I cry as I wake





Kineret Yardena




Warm summer rains pass,
skies are clear again: why not
forgiveness so swift?





Christine S. O'Connor




deep silence echoes
as loudly as the racket
absent children made





Christine S. O'Connor




evening drifting in
over green waves as a mist
closes the curtain





Chris Gusek




a lone cardinal
unconcerned with the details
awaiting the spring





Leanne E Smith




September's summer:
white clematis cloaks fences,
bronze scuppernongs pop.





Tim Gardiner




brimstone butterflies
held in place by metal pins
fading behind glass





Alyson Rewick




Sudden September
South-bound geese fly unnoticed
Shivering at noon





Nancy Austin




monarch on milkweed
a still bee on astilbe
rumble of thunder





Grace Hughes Chappell




farm fields are ready
on the island ripe barley--
wind ruffles your hair





Grace Black




gemini towers
daedalus wings, twins? demise
papered ash of life





David Austin




summer's backward glance
reluctant to say adieu
one lonely white rose