the pumpkin carriage
makes its first appearance:
her New Year's dream

*

Chen-ou Liu
Poetry in the Moment

Need

They bought her a puppy
when what she needed
was her mum and a ride
across the far side
of the moon.

*

Rose Mary Boehm
Coming Up For Air

Bath time.
Five sparrows in the water.

*

Mop.
Poésie minimaliste - Minimalist poetry

December snowfall

Falling from a lead-heavy sky:
static from television screens
making its way into the real world.

*

Emily Smith
Sparkbright

STRAND

Cleaning out the boxes,
I came across a strand
of your hair,
not thick enough
to hang myself with

but
not thin enough
to burn
either—

*

Phil Lane

on inland island shore
valley forest view contained
my rainbow finish line

*

Meike de Nooy

leaf frozen
captured in ice
first Christmas alone

*

Andrea Vlahakis
Andrea Vlahakis

Giving Kisses

Mistletoe in the air
warm lips and candied breath

*

Michelle Hed

Breathe. Bleed. Write. Don't blink.
Blank is a sin worse than dead.
I know. I've been both.

*

A.J. Huffman

Tattoo

The little tattoo
resting below your navel
sweet invitation.

*

Brendan Sullivan

ragged hip-hop
still
I read Issa

*

Christina Nguyen

Ferry Boats

course waters
dock to land
passengers clacker
to town snap
quick photos

*

Steven McLachlan

man says to sun

silly bird,
you fly every day
as if you will see something different


sun replies to man

poor beetle,
you lay down at night
as if you won’t

*

Colin Gilbert

the sky is zinc
and the moonlight makes the tree
look like bone.

*

Carolyn E. Lang
head full of ideas

November

Leaves fall across the cool twilight
like shooting stars.
Three quarters of a moon tonight.
Back in April I dreamed
I could fly.

*


Robin Turner
Gemini on Twin Creek

the belt drive of your hips

says the night is still young

*

William Merricle

EVENING, LEWIS BAY

the
incoming
tide

a gray
horse

blind
in one
eye

*

Howie Good
Apocalypse Mambo

Saturday

5:51 a.m.
snow covers the morning paper
coffee is ready

*

A.g. Synclair

Ice falls quietly
From Winter's warm plum blossoms.

*

Guy A. Duperreault
egajd

the fog finally
lifted, revealing distant
condominiums

*

@HaikuDiem
Haiku Diem

high school reunion ... the guy they all called "kid" has the most gray hair

*

John Sheirer

splitting logs at night:
who forgot to close the lid
on the galaxy?

*

Clark Strand

in the frosty air
the builders tools sound
even more biting

*

Johannes S. H. Bjerg
scented dust

The belltower.
Surrounded by crows.

*


Mop.
Poésie minimaliste - Minimalist poetry

My impossible love,
you are not my landlord.
I don't rent my life from you.

*

Taf Teh
Nota Kecil

Ice keeps this drink cold, my wife’s veins cold, slickens streets same as the one our Jenny rode that night.

*

Leo Kuntz

Mourning

Even the pigs wore black
when they buried mole.

*

Rose Mary Boehm
Coming Up For Air

FORGOTTEN THINGS

the smell
_____of cigarette smoke
and
_____ the inside
_____ of your legs—

*

Phil Lane

watery sunshine after yesterday's torrents

*

Elise Tate

Outside the garage
Petrol puddles, brown water
Scumbled with rainbows

*

Peter Wilkin

Moth between window and screen
I'm tired.

*

Gene Myers