Issue 57

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Issue 57

POETS

Balme, Kennard
Barnett, Sandra
Butner, Renee
Ciopryna, Cassie
Cipriano, Lorraine
Cottrell, Suzanne
Crowe, Whitney
Cunningham, Sara
Drobot, Ana
Dybowski, Deborah
Eckstine, Kirk
Ellison, Emily
Feil, Michael
Gaines, Chasity
Gentry, Susan
Hatter, Shasta
Head, Beverly
Jacobson, Roberta Beach
Jones, Paul
Kamp, Lianne
Kane, Rebecca
Kirouac, Debra
Laussmann, Melissa
Levine, Bruce
Liebert, Elisabeth
Macinnes, Idynne
Maulsby, Dennis
Mclintock, David
Miller, William
Monahan Brown, Ricky
Moore, Andrew
Moyer, Daria
Paoli, Allison
Ponnambalam, Sybil
Poulin, Robert Henry
Robinson, Jackie Maugh
Skala, George
Smith, Erica J
Spitzenberger, Ray
Stice, Lisa
Tambone, Mark A.
Thomas, Sarah
Tristram, Hannah-rose
Tulin, Mark
Vance, Marcus
Wasilewski, Nells
Werner, Erin
Wilson, Juliet
Zedalis, Jackie
Zempel, Rachel





Susan Gentry




Long ago shadows
fade to lonely silhouettes
filtering today





David McLintock




a wet pink balloon
bounces down the estate path
trailed by merry laughs





Hannah-Rose Tristram




In the still of night,
heart's beat and body's base sounds
like a distant rave





Paul Jones




Indestructible
the youthful heart knows no fear
until its first break





Allison Paoli




Watching patiently
He, on the edge of his seat
At last, she awoke





Nells Wasilewski




honking geese fly north
winter melt begins-spring comes
one drip at a time





Emily Ellison




the moon's scythe has cleaved
the pregnant lake to reveal
an indigo lust





Jackie Zedalis




A frog in the porch-
trying to escape the cold
Finding no relief





Andrew Moore




Walking this old place
smells and sounds prepare my mind
for fragile topics





Cassie Ciopryna




Peppermint mocha;
our lips tingle with softness.
Caffeine-triggered kiss.





William Miller




black and white flashes
chickadee is never still
too fast to be prey





Ricky Monahan Brown




broken blackbird hops ---
through industrial estate
to postage stamp green





Daria Moyer




Low tide on the breeze
Sun inches up with promise
Salt troubles old wounds





Sarah Thomas




Twilight cools the earth
wind chimes tremble and shimmer
a new moon rises.





Erica J Smith




While on fallen ice
Tires wrestle midnight roads-
An impatient lure





Michael Feil




starlight gazing down
a thousand kisses landing
our souls are glowing





Shasta Hatter




sudden wind rises
tiny, silver ripples dance
across city pond





Whitney Crowe




Flotsam and jetsam,
and the broken, floppy bits.
I am so much more.





Bruce Levine




Feelings overwhelm
Driving forces moving on
Taking roads unplanned





Kennard Balme




moss covered ant bed
greening the hiding queen's home
lawn mowers look out





Renee Butner




blue violet clouds
dipped in fuchsia finger paint
endless stretch of road





Ana Drobot




winter afternoon -
the white carnations blooming
behind my paintbrush





Lorraine Cipriano




Her earthly delights
eighteenth-century poems
enchanting jasmine





Chasity Gaines




Moonbeams shimmer soft
Cicadas serenade dawn
Warm breeze caresses





Sybil Ponnambalam




my first Texas spring
nature napped, yawned brown dust bloom
rebirth of rebirth





Jackie Maugh Robinson




jumbo strawberries
quite near yet beyond my reach
snowbound sweet dreaming





George Skala




My soft, bated breath
Gasps against her contoured cheek
Sprouting red poppies





Suzanne Cottrell




Snow-covered pansies
Insulated from harsh cold
Fitly re-emerge





Marcus Vance




A chill wind brings tears
Nothing brings light to the heart
Like a happy dog





Elisabeth Liebert




eight snowy egrets
fish in the Bayou Pierre
glass, cans, a car door





Roberta Beach Jacobson




breeze intensifies
fluttering daisy petals
- whirlwind of delight





Erin Werner




Leaden anchor heart
Afloat for now, but drowning
Silent SOS





Beverly Head




the dream is the same
daddy planting ghost peppers
too early in spring





Mark A. Tambone




Drink like buffalo
Prehistoric beasts in rows
Only grains have changed





Robert Henry Poulin




sad loon's tremolo:
chain migration restricted
across the border





Dennis Maulsby




Blonde girl's earbuds throb,
Heavy metal guitar chokes,
peppery cymbals.





Sandra Barnett




evergreen leaning
pointing forever eastward
notched by wanderers





Melissa Laussmann




slowly ascending
moonlight above Mount Fuji
this path leads me home





Juliet Wilson




overgrown garden -
your wife's cookbook unopened
since her early death





Rachel Zempel




somber Friday night
raindrops trickle from the roof
bare streets glistening





Ray Spitzenberger




still a chill, sun bright
snows have packed their flakes and left
bright smiles welcome spring





Idynne MacInnes




Billowing white sheets
grow tame beneath the dark clouds
as the rain comes clean





Lisa Stice




out of the sand, here,
a marigold, close petaled,
in this place, it grew





Debra Kirouac




The trees are naked,
Bereft of leaves, winter's curse
Yet birds are singing





Sara Cunningham




The sun's touch, a hand.
Against your cheek, an imprint.
A shattering song.





Deborah Dybowski




purple iris blooms
sprinkled with tiny dewdrops
outside my window





Lianne Kamp




afternoon mourning
coffin lowered in the ground
dishes fill the sink





KIRK ECKSTINE




A fading flower,
losing color, vibrancy.
Youth's passion grows dim





Mark Tulin




I am lost ashore
Waiting to return to sea
Heavy, sallow, raw.





Rebecca Kane




three-thirty school bus
our kids long gone to college
dog waits at front door