Issue 34

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Issue 34

POETS

Barnett, Sandra
Battersby, Lois
Biggs, Jackie
Blackman, Sarah
Boudreaux, Beau
Brown, Mandy
Burchett, Michelle
Burkard, Doc
Burns, James Roderick
Cantin, Michael
Carcache, Roberto
Corbett, Pamela
Darretta, John Lawrence
Drobot, Ana
Edwards, Terrance
Elson, Doug
Finch, Nicholas
Flick, Richard
Heyward , C. Z.
Hicks, Timothy
Jones, Chris
Kozma, Joseph J
Laing, Julie
Lowe, Dennis
May, Nancy
Mckay, Nicholas
Melton, Bill
Namwen, Miken
Oman, Carl
Peasley Bush, Sandra
Perry, Autumn
Peters, Iris
Pierce, Tyler
Pobo, Kenneth
Robinson, Jackie Maugh
Rojas, Emily
Sprague, Adam
Steele, Jodi
Tamburo, Logan
Tate, Barbara
Wasilewski, Nells





Carl Oman




White crystal shrouded
Crisp beautiful blades of green
Gone with morning sun





C. Z. Heyward




hiding in her voice
susurrations of heaven
raindrops sing backup





C. Z. Heyward




Jack slips on the rocks
fingers tap out S.O.S
bass strums his reply





Beau Boudreaux




Horse race in late May
black-eyed Susans in their vase
whiskey burns ice cubes.





Dennis Lowe




Mojave expanse
symphonic footsteps tracing
melodies of stone





Joseph J Kozma




First frost of the year
The lake steams in the morning
Geese are taking off





Iris Peters




Explosion of reds
Late autumnal fireworks
Rapid change in hue





James Roderick Burns




Sun-lit windows, each
a brief torch against the world
of nicks and splinters





Michael Cantin




No snow to blanket
the shifting earth of my home.
My California





Sandra Barnett




a squirrel jumps from
tree to tree on high branches ?
Vivaldi CD





Logan Tamburo




The church's towers
mirrored on the venetian
canal's glass surface





Ana Drobot




ice flower pattern -
an unknown author's painting
just in the window





Timothy Hicks




rose leaning earthward
in the folds of a petal
beetles take refuge





Chris Jones




White snow falls to Earth
Cardinal lands on tree branch
Fire among the ash





Bill Melton




Broken windows stare
At the fallow weed-choked fields
Once were tilled with care





Bill Melton




Mercedes speeds by
Vanity plate reads TRBL
Bleached blonde at the wheel





Jackie Biggs




Misty air whispers
in a forest full of dreams ?
love breathes through the trees





Kenneth Pobo




Morning glory blooms,
eighty. I counted. I should
have named each of them.





Kenneth Pobo




My father says he's
getting forgetful, pollen
against a window.





Kenneth Pobo




A cinnamon fern--
drought works it way up from roots.
The woods stop breathing.





Jodi Steele




Tricky is the Fox,
Somersaulting through the Truth.
Caught in her own trap.





Michelle Burchett




Sunset-splattered peach
Bleeding end-of-summer wine -
A tree hangover





Michelle Burchett




waterfall journey
over, around obstacles
hard rock music streams





Sarah Blackman




suddenly first light
cacophony of birdsong
breaks the day open





Sandra Peasley Bush




Below the ice film
Blanketing the sleeping pond
Golden fins quiver





Barbara Tate




a ghost of herself
the doe treads on damp mosses
just before sunrise





Barbara Tate




nocturnal hunter
conspicuous in absence
the owl calls my name





Adam Sprague




Down by the river
Without you, gone to the fog?
It's my soul that's lost





Adam Sprague




With your hand in mine
Shadow shows what words cannot?
We are truly one





Lois Battersby




Shimmering mirage
Of a desert caravan
Crossing centuries





Doc Burkard




candles on the amp,
humming chord, the fourth, the fifth
that burns forever





Miken Namwen




wind carrying seed
sycamore helicopters ~
sister spinning wool





John Lawrence Darretta




golden leaves trip down
tawny toads slow hop away
summer bows to fall





Nancy May




on bare branches a
shower of snow, in the nest
ruffle of feathers





Roberto Carcache




Wind sweeps the brown flames
Breaths form clouds on the window
The pines are upright





Nicholas McKay




The albatross failed
to migrate, when the winter
consumed the region





Mandy Brown




enter in stillness
my small flickering candle
keep me while I breathe





Autumn Perry




The time changes but
I remain fixed. Watching life
through the same stilled lens.





Nicholas Finch




A planted kiss on
my cheek, after budding, then
sprouted'to a weed.





Jackie Maugh Robinson




in mid-pirouette
music box ballerina
waits for the last?note





Pamela Corbett




a light west wind blows,
blind to large looming black clouds,
young boys crab at dusk.





Miken Namwen




a flight of grey cranes
glided into no-man's land ~
unperturbed by war





Emily Rojas




Standing on the edge
Open, stripped and on display
Solace in leaping





Nells Wasilewski




cold lonely day--sky
a seamless gray canopy
your knock on the door





Tyler Pierce




My self-obsessed breath
Reflected on me, even
As it became air





Terrance Edwards




Red wine strong, warming;
another glass is poured as
old friends tell new tales





Doug Elson




Yellow leaves like rain
a cold north wind swirls, briefly
they rise once again





Richard Flick




Enmeshed in sorrows
Light breaks over sickly vines
Lilacs collect dew





Julie Laing




Beauty, so fragile
Dependent on warming sun
I ache to touch you.





Julie Laing




Boat waits patiently
Sail and sailor expectant
Not a breath of wind.