Issue 35

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Issue 35

POETS

Becker, Leon
Black, Grace
Cowzer, Allison
Doerksen, Patrick
Drobot, Ana
Edwards, Terrance
Fernandez Low, Laura
Finch, Nicholas
Franco, Johnny
Geary, Cecil
Hansen, Deborah
Hansen, Robert P.
Hicks, Timothy
Hill, Elizabeth F.
Holden, Craig Thomas
Kauderer, Herb
Kozma, Joseph J
La Voie, Angela
Lewis, Rachel
Li, Quinn
Ling, Nicholas
Lunsford, Sarah
May, Nancy
Melton, Bill
Minnehan, Catherine
Namwen, Miken
Perry, Autumn
Pierce, Tyler
Rickards, Susannah
Riley, Hazel
Robinson, Jackie Maugh
Rojas, Emily
Ryan, Lucy
Spencer, Kim
Tate, Barbara
Travis, Kent
Verdi, Bryan
Volz, Mark
Wasilewski, Nells
West, Tyson
Zempel, Rachel





Patrick Doerksen




upon a hill top
I see the horizon's back
bent with hot scarlet





Kim Spencer




bleak highway houses
sit beside broken billboards
dreams then now faded





Herb Kauderer




gothic angels paint
monochromatic portraits
motifs of shadow





Timothy Hicks




forest flames below
a beautiful tragic view
for those on the hill





Emily Rojas




Warm like an embrace
A desolate hill, lit up
Such beauty, wasted





Bill Melton




You were in my soul
Before you were in my life
I was just waiting





Bill Melton




Nebulous shadows
Of moonlight slowly swaying
To a gentle breeze





Joseph J Kozma




Black birds on the road
Cautious snow flakes, lazy winds
No traffic at all





Joseph J Kozma




Chapel in the woods
Empty nests and peeling bark
Nobody to blame





Laura Fernandez Low




Old man sits and stares
He waits for life to return
Manta ray dives in





Grace Black




cerulean cry
winter claims her bare canvas
gusts of northern winds





Johnny Franco




Battlefield carnage
souls swarm the eternal light
seeking God's passage.





Tyson West




a hollow pine stump
day of the dead sheltering
a skull shaped mushroom





Tyson West




all yellow leaves flee
the cold birch limbs above me
stars sprout on her twigs





Nells Wasilewski




cold, cold snowy day
nothing could drag us outside.
the sled is broken





Nells Wasilewski




when you left--I cleaned
shoe fetish tied up in bags
trying to let go





Susannah Rickards




Winter. Old fence felled
by wind rests against an elm
growing bright new moss





Miken Namwen




stately red crowned cranes
prancing in the snowy field ~
my tallest sister





Nicholas Ling




Alone, all is still.
No one that I need to be.
Blissfully, I just be.





Barbara Tate




meditation bench
a journal spread before me
I wait for the muse





Nancy May




snow fallen branches
sway in a cold breeze, feathers
ruffle in a nest





Leon Becker




snowflakes fall gently
shattered within a moment
my grasp was too strong





Craig Thomas Holden




Through children worlds bloom
The art of tatebanko
Beware, paper cuts





Terrance Edwards




laptop propped open
caught in his virtual world
his coffee goes cold





Miken Namwen




mountains hanging there
holding their knowledge aloof ~
white-bearded old men.





Craig Thomas Holden




Lattice of shadows
Lilies shy from naked souls
An arbour adorned





Bryan Verdi




Rest the eyes in sleep
the stillness of night prevails
crickets jump and play





Robert P. Hansen




after dinner mint
placed with such delicacy
next to my pillow





Rachel Lewis




Leopards hunt silent
the breeze carries leaves gone by
the Fox dies alone





Autumn Perry




purity of page
continuation of thought
a smearing of ink





Deborah Hansen




Dewdrops kissing lace.
Amid this beauty, danger.
Wily spider waits.





Deborah Hansen




Bushy tail curves low,
ears alert to our presence.
The wolf backs away.





Tyler Pierce




Early morning chores
Orion fills the West sky
I fill grain buckets





Cecil Geary




Beneath the sharp lance,
The blue joker moth dances
Hysterically.





Rachel Zempel




Transcribed by black ink
A muted voice, otherwise
Paper sets her free





Angela La Voie




Intracoastal cool
egrets strut tourist pathways
pools lounge in freedom





Rachel Zempel




Fresh, gentle, Spring breeze
Tides of tears roll out to sea
A new beginning





Allison Cowzer




Lichen covered tree
sides most stunted and deprived
lessons make us wise





Jackie Maugh Robinson




this curtained darkness
something about the silence-
overnight snow drifts





Mark Volz




Balance of nature
The sun rises, the sun sets
All in symmetry





Kent Travis




cool swirl of water
churning in the river's crook--
she laughs up the bank





Elizabeth F. Hill




hummingbirds hover
sipping sweet summer cider
through delicate straws





Elizabeth F. Hill




sagging sunflower
disgruntled by September
sullenly hangs head





Sarah Lunsford




You wake me gently
reach to me and warm my skin
Good morning sun ray





Nicholas Finch




Morning dew settles
silver on the last fall leaf?
soon death for rebirth.





Hazel Riley




wind of change blowing
ruffling feathers, teasing wings
the fates are spinning





Lucy Ryan




douse me in feathers
bathe my bones in blessed light
Nephilim is dead





Quinn Li




You may have felt it
An undulating mountain
Terra from ashes





Catherine Minnehan




The first green of spring
protruding from snow and soil-
presents from the Sun





Ana Drobot




my flower garden
once again in its full bloom -
watching falling stars