Issue #30, Spring 2013

long summer day . . .
cuckoo songs from a new place
deeper in the woods

     Anita Virgil

once or twice
a fin breaks the surface
this passing life

     Bruce Ross

prenuptial contract
fish bones neatly spaced
on white china

     Ron Moss

a sparrow flies off
with another piece
of my shredded poem

     Alan Pizzarelli

until
I am earth again
rain moving through the bluestem

     Chad Lee Robinson

no wind
even the dog’s bark drops
at its mouth

     d.e. connelly

floating in the lake
the sky
my breath

     Michele Root-Bernstein

Issue #29, Fall 2012

memoirs
raking my yard
into piles

     Jayne Miller

the old-man stance
of a snowy egret
the new year begins

     Carolyn Hall

sitting alone at the bar
with others sitting alone
spring drizzle

     Stephen A. Peters

girl on a bike
the clouds moving
with her

     Bill Kenney

a steamed oyster
and the winter sky
pried open

     David Borden

ebb tide
the night nurse
closes your eyes

     Seánan Forbes

forsythia
I forget the rest
of the story

     Tom Painting

Issue #28, Spring 2012

plum blossoms . . .
I shake off all thoughts
of returning home

     Chen-ou Liu

something
you’re not telling me . . .
camellia buds

     Claire Everett

a small adjustment
to stay en route
sunlit pines

     George Swede

fading memories
a flurry of finches
against the spring sky

     Billie Wilson

what is not negotiable
summer solstice

     Victor Ortiz

her letters . . .
a birch tree holds the snow
in its crooked places

     Francine Banwarth

fingers set
on the home keys—
my resolutions

     Christopher Patchel

Issue #27, Fall 2011

this life together
on the mountain our footprints
fill with snow

    J. Zimmerman

spring melancholy
     I cut my tofu
     smaller and smaller

     Fay Aoyagi

another star
     in the night sky . . .
     this year of growing older

     Angela Terry

magnolias  the one not in bloom

     P M F Johnson

leaf burst . . .
     the woodpecker’s vent
     in the sun-drenched wood

     John Barlow

graveside
    feeling the sun
    on my back

     Bill Kenney

toys
    my father couldn’t fix
    summer rain

    Aubrey Cox

Issue #26, Spring 2011

scattered showers
the river full
of somewhere else

    Michele L. Harvey

his suicide
    how sleet slices
    into soft ice

    Shimi

twilight deer graze
    in the fold of a hill
    blooming mustard

    James Chessing

end of summer
    a swimmer
    dries her feet

    Joseph M. Kusmiss

bruised apples
    he wonders what else
    I haven’t told him

     Melissa Allen

the documents
    all signed
    winter rain

    Roland Packer

things you just know skunk

    John Soules