Space Station Blues by Les Merton
in an interplanetary space stationwith bustling pedestrian zoneshe sits on his own in a buzz bar drinking a glass of cloud nine nectarit is an orange sky daywith smile impregnated air he doesn’t...
View ArticleSamara by Joseph Harker
Where did welearn about gravity?The playground--but not fromNewton's apocryphal appleplummeting to earth.Our source wasSeptember maplegone slow gold,the sunlightpreening the paper wings ofits whirligig...
View ArticleLadybird, Ladybird by Alison Lock
I stop the sh sh across my pageto watch a squirrel nuzzle the groundall auburn fuzz, nose downre- checking the co-ordinateson a mental map for a nut called Xthe shrubs wear their prettiest bonnetsof...
View ArticleThe Corner by Holly Day
the beetle in theweb clicks softin time to the spinning of itsbody in the long arms of the spiderthat has made its home inthe dark corner ofmy office. it clicksso regular I turn off my computer, mydesk...
View Articlehaiku by J D Nelson
the computer hums —the black moth on the ceilinghas been there for hoursJ D Nelson, Colorado, USA
View ArticleThe Black Button by Richard King Perkins II
It could becomepart of a teddy bear or snowmanbut it’s held the portion of my coatnearest my heart together for three yearsand there’s no reasonfor major alterations at this time.In the still darkness...
View ArticleLetting Go of the Conceit by Holly Day
Imparting tiny grains of colored sand with intricate thoughtsOne giant flower covering the ground. It was so beautifulI wanted take it home with me.After it was done, he smeared great swaths of color...
View ArticleJapan Washes Ashore in Oregon by Catherine McGuire
I.Two years later, debris scuttles onto the shingle:fishing boats, brass bowl, a temple gate,scrap wood, a window frame, shop sign –there's no closure to some wounds.Buried in black and beige sand...
View ArticleBrotecito / Little Seedling by Amelia Modrak
BrotecitoCrece, mi brotecito, crece,Antes de que cambie el clima,Antes de que lo hayamos alteradoDe una forma irreversible.Conviértete en fronde joven,Y luego en bosques frondosos,Inunda la Tierra de...
View ArticleReplanting the Great Caldonian Forest by Simon Kewin
In those days, Scots Pines lawned the HighlandsThe Mesolithic Marten that ran through the branchesCould see both seas and never leave the touching leavesOf giant cathedralling trees, shepherding their...
View ArticlePonderance by Chris Crittenden
comes that late exhale of daywhich marks the sun’s ritual loss.effusions tint the Earth fieryeven as she shuns the sky dome’s paling.trees reach from intent shadow,audacious as wicker...
View ArticleDaily Diary by Michael Keshigian
All day, every day,through the night while you sleep,dust floats upon airy parchmentto silently describe the momentand soon another page is complete.Early, when it’s quiet,the faint sound you think...
View ArticleReflected Light by Penny Smith
Remember how this winter day gave lightto country fields where frost and snowflakes lay?It held at bay the terrors of the night.When phantoms lurk and prowl our inner sightand blackest thoughts intrude...
View ArticleThe View from Behind by Sr Anne Higgins
Tapestries looklike battlefieldsfrom the back.Threads like soldiersin hand to hand combat -who is most resilient?Arms locked,elbows out,clenched fists of knotscatteredlike small skirmishesacross the...
View Articlehaiku by Kenneth B Thompson
Morning silencejet trailsfence the sky Kenneth B Thompson, New Jersey, USA
View ArticleGoose Feathers by Gary Every
The telephone rings late at nightand the beautiful woman I wish to be in love withgreets me with hellomaking my heart go pitter patter.Her words are punctuated by percussive raindropsgoing pitter...
View ArticleSnail Slime by Lois Read
Philosophers, knightly armour shining ride off in search of the Holy Grail brimming with answers to profound questions. Poets modestly tiptoe noticing things a sparkle of dew, a butterfly wing's...
View ArticleEarly Dawn by Mary Belardi Erickson
wing-clouds rush-in, descend to ivy-covered bricks.These wren choirs out-bright sunrise,are a courtyard's Hosanna. Here I awake--again and again-- to recount word-rowsin transcending measure. I...
View ArticleAlong the Creek by Duncan Fraser
Sun shining down from a pale blue autumn sky,white wisps of cloud move slowly in the breeze,grass dry and bleached by drought and summer heat.The tree-lined creek is nearly dry,green puddles punctuate...
View ArticleIn a Sculptor's Garden by David Chorlton
I walked into a bee swarmwhose buzzing madea globe of soundthat moved through treesand settledin a mass against the sloping edgewhere roof meets sky. .Among figures cast in time,reclining, standing ina...
View ArticleSomeplace for Queens by Cynthia Sidrane
If you sit long enoughOn the granite boulderAt the edge of town,Gazing into desert spacesBetween compass cactusAnd owl's clover,Baileya and brittle bush,You might notice a few bees pausingOver yellow...
View ArticleElemancy by Chris Crittenden
obliterated by a vigorof rain, the stubborn dustof cities upon cities,of gone animals and creatures,whirled astonishedin a sibilant dance,ripples of hallelujahborne on its percussion.and we could...
View ArticleSwifts by Andy Barritt
skating warm aether the swifts returnno longer fouled by trailing nets of rain, black scythes harvest the blue meniscus that teeters like a dinner platebetween...
View ArticleSuperdense by Josephine Shaw
In quantum theory the inconceivably smallcan give rise to the unimaginably large.And that means that somewhere there existsa diamond the size of a planetmade from a cold, corroded star.And also that...
View ArticleCassini Vision by Lark Beltran
This blue-dot world,far outshone by the surreal ringspanof big-brother Saturn,is of so little consequence, any might say,who was not of Earth.Countless such dotsevolve then thrive,their cultures and...
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