Black power lines
pulled taught
against blue sky

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kimberly childers

ripples of gold
the sinking sun rides the wake of a river boat

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James Newton

Evergreen needles made spindly Rorschach tests out the door,
the Hoover's whir, last carol of the season

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Patrick Nolan Ward

The marquee at the Burger King says:
August
Seniors
Welcome

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Paul Hostovsky

Summer

a kid wearing paper tissues under starched collar,
ear glued to a transistor blaring "Baby Love,"
hands cutting out paper heroes.

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Kyle Hemmings

patchy clouds…
tadpoles rest in clumps
on the creek bed

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Craig W. Steele

Twilight rain washes
yesterday’s paper.
Those people aren’t coming back.

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Glenn Halak

a low swarm of hailstones
a scurrying white piedpiper dance
among slow rushhour tyres

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James Newton

Walking across the morning asphalt, shadows and sunlight - a speckled harmony. In the drop off/pick up zone, eye catches the glint of a small tan circle. Moving near I see it as a Cheerio. I continue into work, the preschool.

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Nancy
pomegranate trail

The afternoon breeze blows bits of waterfall--
cooling confetti--
onto sweaty skin.

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Kathleen Brewin Lewis

the scent
of mum’s soup in the breeze-
almost home

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Rachel Sutcliffe

A hat shaped like
a sailboat, made of newsprint:
cure for depression.

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Jason Braun

One last breath
of tar and nicotine,
I promise.

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Linda DeMello

Rye, N.H.

Sea water bucket,
Pool under rocks, tiny crabs:
Seacoast grandchildren.

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Robert Demaree

friday night lights
a road stripped red
in the gritter's trail

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Matt Morden
Morden Haiku

tiny shells--
kids carry home
the joy of sea

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Pravat Kumar Padhy

At the laundromat...
where is the girl whose stocking
has made my shirts blush?

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Paul Hostovsky

Some things never change

his nerves pinched when he followed her into the bedroom;
like the first day of high school

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Devlin De La Chapa
BoySlut

Last Call

"Last call," says the barkeep,
sporting a bushy red handlebar mustasche,
sunken eyes. The night is shutting down.

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Kyle Hemmings

double autumn
first white hair shines
on me and her

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Ramesh Anand

looking by chance at a sodium vapour streetlight as it lights up
sky blue rising to the quantum orange of dawn

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James Newton

On the mountainous backdrop to this lakeside trail,
pine trees stand like green arrowheads
in a child’s drawing.

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Kathleen Brewin Lewis

winter chill........
unwelcome
in mother in law's home

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Hema Ravi

Rust Pond

September morning:
Red maple mirrored on pond,
Flat-water kayak.

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Robert Demaree

The tall swamp grass
beckons. Meadowlarks
nail the silence shut.

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Doug Draime

Balloon Unplugged

Shirred rubber phallistic ribbonette,
immobilized by dreams
of strung flight. Unful-
filled. Master of no motion
but a flaccid flop.

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A.J. Huffman

Bay of Fundy

Brown sea flower pots
Gabled houses, pink lupins:
New Brunswick August

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Robert H. Demaree Jr.

autumn gales ....
in the woods an old man stands still

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Rachel Sutcliffe

The sage flower buds looked dried up and dead until the rains came. Then they burst into bloom; pink-mauve, attracting bees and butterflies.

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Freya Pickard
Dragonscale Clippings

Sun dogs circle
biting cold.
Teardrops cling, closing icicled lashes
against the brilliance.
My breath, a frigid fog,
hangs suspended,
chilling.

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Maureen Bailey

clearing storm
larch needles fill
the potholes

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Matt Morden
Morden Haiku