after the green gloam of the park
a blue black bruised neighborhood
rent apart by orange neon
and the fierce brand of headlights

*

Natalie Korman

I can trawl and wish,
pray through the night out of want of a god

*

Maureen Jivani

My ever-warm soft white cat lies perfectly still on the asphalt; bright scarlet trickles from her nose.

*

Brian Moffat
Petrophase

I heard gunshots again last night
and our gated neighborhood is an island,
soon to be swallowed by the sea.

*

Ben White
day/night reversal

Autumn Breeze

One brown shoe
on the side of the road

a foot still in it
tapping

*

Howie Good
Apocalypse Mambo

collage
glue will not
do for the trees

*

Sarah Quigley

Entering Paxton

a lone Waxwing
greets me from atop
an ageless stone wall
fallow
among brushwood
slough
and floret

*

A.g. Synclair

it feels like early evening
all day; I am
disoriented by gray

*

Marsha Robinson

Sharp

the knives dance at night
slipping through the sliver
openings of cabinet doors

*

Torie Michelle Anderson

The back of his head
is as beautiful as anything

*

Marsha Robinson

tonight
we take risks
like our kids
take candy

*

Alvin Park
A Streetlight Anomaly

it's cold this morning // my sweaters are folded in cedar-chipped boxes

*

Angie Werren
woman, ask the question

Everything Falls

The path is strewn
leaves
seeds
snails
feathers
footfall
earth
rain
dappled light.

*

Tamra Hayes
Laughing Dove Poetry

Shorn sheep grazing in the sun,
oblivious to the express train cutting
through the heat haze.

*

Beth Williamson

Gannets bombing into the sea off Abermaw beach
and then, on our last day,
a dead harbour porpoise, washed up by the waves.

*

Geoff Sawers
Pioden

Cloud secrets

What do the clouds know
That they're not telling?

*

Rachel Fox
More about the song

stale shimmering afternoon
and a trip to the compost bins
- flies ride the elevator

*

Kelly Shepherd
Kelly Shepherd

cold raindrops
spotting the streets,
tapping on windows

*

Stephen Jarrell Williams

she often said,
''i told you so.'
'i smile to think
she'd say it now.

*

Ian Houston
Asleep On My Feet

metallic slink;
his Rolex slides down
her pale wrist.

*

Asmara Malik

There are a dozen ways
to lay without touching.

*

Kat Dixon
Planets, Heavy Bodies

dog occupies folding bed
dog occupies futon
dog coils up

*

Kirsten Nørgaard
stensamler

Rain flecks the restless
slate dark sea

*

Jac Cattaneo

Small Bird

the small bird
beneath the hedge
brown as the ground
hidden from the rain
waits

*

Pamela Olson
Amputated Moon

I walk for the morning newspaper, not for the news, but to renew myself.

*

Eric Miller

An Evening On Millennium Bridge: Two Thoughts

Walking towards St Paul's Cathedral;
crane tops sit on the skyline
like stationary fireworks.

*

I have always loved walking
over bodies of water --
even when, on looking down,
I remember it's the Thames.

*

Gareth Trew

In silence, broken flowers shiver in the beer glass.

*

Jon Summers
hums

Mini-buttercups
Inside a buttercup
Inside a buttercup
Inside a buttercup

*

Andrew Stott
Fragments

Tail streaming in the wind, a wild plastic pony rides the ridge of a suitcase waiting to cross the border.

*

Beverly Robinson
murmuring trees

Fungal alien brains grown to the wet-wood, rot-stump of an oak.

*

Deborah Walker

flowers pleading
against a stark white sky

*

Sarah Haliwell
stars in her fingernails