Issue 41

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Issue 41

POETS

Agnew, Zach
Aldridge, Bobby
Barnett, Sandra
Becket, Teresa
Blazure, Drew
Brooks, Robert
Burns, James Roderick
Cates, Anna
Culver, Ralph
Drobot, Ana
Dube, Val
Flanagan, Michael
Fletcher, Amy
Gatzow, Laura
Gentry, Susan
Grisetti, Joann
Hartwell, Rick
Heyward , C. Z.
Hurst, Rick
Kamp, Lianne
Knodel, Christopher
Kozma, Joseph J
Lahr, Jeff
Lloyd, Sherry
Long, Marie
Lorenson, Joyce
Lowe, Dennis
Macdonald, John
Malone, Zachary
Medina, Cj, Fr Daniel
Melton, Bill
Miller, David
Miller, Dean
Nolan, Peter
Peters, Iris
Poversky, Angelica
Quintana, Robert
Rojas, Emily
Rossi, Patricia
Ruiz, Ashley
Schutter, Mary R. P.
Shaw, William
Spencer, Kim
Sprafka, Robin
Sweeney, Erin Michaela
Tardona, Daniel
West, Tyson
Zempel, Rachel





Angelica Poversky




Reach into the hand
Your mother gave you at birth
Use it to reach hers





James Roderick Burns




Distant harvester
cuts through the wheat, weaves around
a telegraph pole





David Miller




grey day tossing clouds
maple leaves spin across yards
motion absent change





Emily Rojas




Foam swallows my feet
Salty air, ominous waves
Peace in feeling small





Fr Daniel Medina, CJ




My head is spinning
Nothing seems to be stable
Today confirms fate





Anna Cates




October sunset
cold fog rises from the earth
among the tombstones





Teresa Becket




lemon-rhubarb hair
cascades as we pirouette
atop crimson leaves





Erin Michaela Sweeney




Jacarandas sway
breezy rains and mossy hills
periwinkle blooms





C. Z. Heyward




harvest moon beckons
spring tide crests aureate banks
brown leaves ride her wake





Robert Brooks




Dawn: an empty road
From a cleft in the concrete
A sunflower grows





Mary R. P. Schutter




soft summer breezes
lilies nod so politely
jets roar overhead





Ralph Culver




bright green stalks swaying
high rows of September corn
one crow standing guard





Jeff Lahr




Granite trail, steep climb
Soundless, as dying leaves fall
My heart beats walking





Tyson West




state hospital graves
nameless deer graze among stones
inscribed in numbers





William Shaw




The lion lollops
Between the greying houses;
King of the Suburbs.





John MacDonald




Half a rabbit seen
by full moon. The unseen half?
Rabbit all the same.





Rick Hurst




Dewy chilly morn,
Sun begins to warm the earth-
Horse whinnies hello.





Robin Sprafka




sunrises wet-cool
winds breathe through loftiest limbs
caterpillar crawls





Bobby Aldridge




bruised fruit in a bowl
paint and mineral spirits
capture my still life





Peter Nolan




I give no grumble
Hearing the thunder and rain
Thankful for this warmth





Rick Hartwell




Interrogation
Tree echoes the woodpecker
Reverberation





Patricia Rossi




snowflake minuet
white laden tranquility
nature's gift of peace





Lianne Kamp




Silver light fishes
Leaping sparks on the water
Cast down from the sun





Joyce Lorenson




morning without song
heart shaped leaves a deeper red
an autumn day dawns





Iris Peters




Diffuse morning light
Cobweb adorned dewy grass
Autumn's early kiss





Laura Gatzow




a silver-tongued brook
wheat field whispers in the wind
fingertips trace Braille.





Robert Quintana




Earth turns to winter
Tree line falls; skyline rises
Fresh fallen asphalt





Drew Blazure




Carolina pine
Biscuits covered in gravy
At home the heart smiles





Dennis Lowe




parting laden pines
ice powdered boughs shiver fog
snow dust down my back





Ana Drobot




November the first -
descending down a dry leaf
a very slow snail





Bill Melton




Trouping down the hill
The brazen blonde daffodils
Exhibit no shame





Dean Miller




Storms pound the jetty
Foghorn cries into the brume
Ships safe in harbor





Zachary Malone




cloudless skies still move
so much wind across my face
leaves blowing like thoughts





Joseph J Kozma




Sleeping in the shade
Messages on falling leaves
No good place to hide





Zach Agnew




The final tick tock
Hollow cries of a lost clock
Brings an end to time





Rachel Zempel




white blanketed trees
snowflakes dancing from the sky
melting on my tongue





Susan Gentry




Deep fog of fretting
murky way to show caring
worry blinds all faith





Michael Flanagan




Cloudless brilliant dawn?
Blue Jay hops up to the sky.
Bough to branch to twig.





Marie Long




Tastes like a sweet soul
In the fruited fields you've grown
Ravenous no more





Anna Cates




Amish countryside
the fresh scent of bovine fields
beyond the cheese shop





Christopher Knodel




under the white sands
ivory bones and green glass
reveal the fallout





Kim Spencer




almighty baptism
divine waves force bended knee
my blue genesis





Ashley Ruiz




Autumn is artwork;
Golden sunsets and cool nights
Leaves fall and take flight





Daniel Tardona




Anhinga bird stretch
Waking the morning stillness
Warming my new day





Val Dube




Beneath the orchard
giant fruit tarantulas
sweeten their spring nests.





Sherry Lloyd




sun rays angle down-
a row of birch tree shadows
disguises deep snow





Joann Grisetti




opaline snow rings
tarnishing the silver moon -
old age settles in





Amy Fletcher




Pushing fingers down
Into deep green moss and ferns
Cool earth, sweet cool earth





Amy Fletcher




Dare I lie me down
Amidst bare trees, floating songs
Lifting lonely souls?





Sandra Barnett




pink japonica
blooms on bare limbs wet with rain --
last winter's shovels