Fuzzy fat green bud
Mostly still closed
Except for a peek
Of bright red tenderness
Waiting on just the right moment
To make its grand debut.

*

Stacy Maddox
stardrifting

Baby Banana

Smear of snail
bicycle-mown;
rotted fruit
burst ripe open.

*

Ian Mullins

The Greeks put their money on Atlas
muscling the sky into place.
Mine’s on Einstein’s curved notion
that time enfolds Atlas in space.

*

Tim Laffey

Raccoon

Fills my headlights
with eyes amazed by dying.
Makes a hideous thump.

*

J.K. Durick

start of spring
the growing herds
of hikers

*

Rachel Sutcliffe

Cape Cod
the round sun rising over
your pregnant belly

*

Perry L. Powell

chemotherapy makes your skin unforgettably smooth
หลังจากทำเคมีบำบัดแล้วผิวของคุณช่างเรียบเนียนเหมืิอนไปทำสปามาเลยทีเดียว

*

James Newton

monsoon’s end
patches of emptiness
on the evening moon

*

Ramesh Anand

Deid craw o a black brolly by the dykeside.

*

F.E.Clark

Winter at dawn:
Frozen coyote shit
along the trail.

*


Jason Sturner

a small trout
leaps
scarcely disturbs
a fast flowing stream

*

Armando H. Corbelle

Cary

Cary

Cary--

I never tire

of your dimple.

*

Michele Alice

My Last Date

Your hair smelled really weird
but at least i remembered something
about you

*

Simon L. Read

Puffy cotton balls
line blue ceiling
mackerel sky swims

*

kimberly childers

ants on the bathroom floor
black taxis hurrying along the broad avenues between the tiles

*

James Newton

morning fog
opening the car
with the house key

*

Rachel Sutcliffe

sky (sleet-gray-
steel) skyline
shaken storm
shaking thunder
through suburbs
buildings vibrating
deepest foundations

*

Steven McLachlan

though without you
to see it-
still spring blooms

*

Rachel Sutcliffe

Among Rapids

Among rapids, salmon, fins, tail splash,
The border collie can’t herd them home.

*

David Fraser

I walk past laughing lovers.
No need to know
what was funny.

*


Jason Sturner

morning bath.
my infant dressed
in olive oil

*

Ramesh Anand

Naps

This almost forgotten
bit of my childhood
makes sense once more.

*

J.K. Durick

tiny school children
dancing the Virginia Reel
and without touching

*

Perry L. Powell

The dark night peers into my living room
where I linger,
the hum of the refrigerator my only company

*

Maureen Bailey

an early spring rain
glazes cobblestones
as white smoke
slowly rises
-- finally

*

Armando H. Corbelle

Misery

The thought of you
buying my mocha
for somebody else

*

Simon L. Read

an intricate scurry
of swelling branches
Paradox Walnut sings

*

kimberly childers

bangkok
the moon is upside down
an isabelline umbrella drifting on an indigo sea

*

James Newton

lemon blossoms
the push i needed
in this wind

*

Kirsten Cliff
Swimming in Lines of Haiku

Buzzard’s cry skirls up my spine.

*

F.E.Clark

spring stroll
the gentle bounce
of my new bob

*

Rachel Sutcliffe