Plum Tree Tavern

By Mona Bedi cumulonimbus — still the clouds from my childhood winter dawn a fledgling tries to flee the nest summer’s end a whiff of autum...

 By Terrence Sykes London embanks upon The Thames - laced with many bridges Cairo cradles upon The Nile - lacking any bridges My old flat s...

 By Ed Ahern first leaf barely brown waif on a still growing lawn prophet of the chill

By Leila Kulpas Our scavenge for old bottles forgotten my mother, father and I follow one another along the river bankin the light of reared...

By Maurizio Brancaleoni after the rain — the saved snail extends its horns dawn in the suburbs — the rooster crows as in olden times

by Chen-ou Liu alone with the sound of water flowing over rocks ... this childhood river Zen Garden a dragonfly's wings pat the morning ...

By Ceri Marriott Slave, migrant, refugee Forced to sea, to leave An oft-loved land of birth, A cherished family, and dear friends - What cho...

By C.X. Turner frost fairs on the River Thames roasting oxen

 By Katharine Cristiani 800 years of Eastern Hemlocks a cathedral of giants until an insect  rolled as forest fire  charred the life out,   ...

By Stephen A. ROzwenc  Hawaiian Mai ia manawa mai ʻO ka ʻalani ʻAʻohe mea i moeʻuhane maikaʻi Ever since The watermelon Nothing has dreamed ...

By Stephen A. Rozwenc Spanish Vuelos de colibrí Abrir la cremallera Nada sublime Hummingbird flights Unzip Sublime nothingness

By Jean Janicke From a distance all is calm at this stretch of the Hughes River. Flat water by the far bank reflects specks of sky shimmere...

Dear Plum Tree Patrons, Morgen John here. It's 3 months to the day that my father passed away. In his honor, we're having a grand re...

By Ryan Harper At bottom they were groping for light: such a pass a day makes across the rocks, pale rails rolling up the twisted trunks of ...

By Joe Cottonwood Just another midwest river you never heard of, green, quiet, doing its job. We float for miles in a johnboat. An abandoned...

by Darrell Petska Here must waft the tang of joy at its simplest: feasting saproxylics— tiny beetles, blooming fungi— imparting to the flesh...

By Royal Rhodes.  For Russell Streur. Plums that bent the boughs of Temple trees Lie as fallen fruit upon the ground, Untouched by monks of ...

By Russell Joseph  (In honor of my late father, Russell.  May he Rest in Peace - The Plum Tree Tavern's original barkeep.  He has left t...

by Kevin Browne against the current a muskrat tests the spring chill

by Chen-ou Liu the call  of a Canada warbler  mist-choked over water

by Farah Ali River Avon a smudge of otter ripples the surface 

by David Chorlton   The air’s a friendly buzz and breath is honey on the desert trail that feels its way from spring to early summer and the...

by Keith Melton   Grandfather Mountain, thawing  Expanding in molten rants, stone prairies Casting about the heavens The earth rippling; sto...

by Doug Stone    After all these years when he walks across Tiananmen square, the pavement still vibrates with the rhythmic rumble of idling...

by Al Ortolani   The mailbox is frozen shut. The mailman smacks the ice away with his fist, drives down the road towards the next box plante...

by Farah Ali mudlarking along the Thames dunlins gather  

by Jeff Burt The San Lorenzo dries swallows dabble in a trough take mud from horseshoes

by Joshua St. Clair morning mist settling on the Susquehanna’s banks bird’s-eye speedwell  

by Monica Kakkar marble rocks' sculptress pebbles to Banalingas music of Rewa

by Al Ortolani   The office car is abandoned on a spur of railroad track. It is filled with dust and gray sunlight. Some windows are locked ...

by David L Williams It’s less than perfect river time unless The feel of water swells against the skin, With bubbles rising as from fishes’ ...

by Cathryn Shea   While visiting Santa Fe, which feels a world away from my home state, I’m disoriented tripping upon a lacuna where monumen...

by Kelley J. White peering through the mist half day light horses in the rain

by Terrence Sykes summer fragrance blooms sweet peas sprawling in the ditch planted years ago monastic dweller plum rain falls upon my soul ...

by James Penha the Lehigh River flowing shallow this spring from lack of snowfall the Lehigh River  ranks second among toxic US waterways th...

by petro c.k. riverbed rocks exposed salmon remains

by Sarah das Gupta  Move on, nothing here  - only the flash of a kingfisher's brilliance only fine strands of bright green hair only the...

by Pranab Ghosh One step in water The shadow of the crane floats Where are the fishes?

by Uchechukwu Onyedikam /Christina Chin Temple of the Azure Clouds  beside the Keluang river— snakes  come to venerate the monk's birthd...

 

by Andrew Collinson   Trickles and drips from limestone lips ichor, earthy wounds gentle issue mossy Ribblehead springs and gills Cam and Ga...

by John Grey   So what in the world's gone now, what forest, stream or maybe parking lot, housing estate, acquired its unknown absence. ...

by Douglas J. Lanzo last elephant lurks at forest’s edge disappearing with the trees

by Lynne Goldsmith fireflies flashing bright cold light dusk summer magnolia trees

by H. W. Day Asiatic honeysuckle stems breath & water, life, & the twining vine of sweet death. & such sweet death appropriates ...

by Lynne Goldsmith spring eurasian doves nest in blue spruce tree

by Carl Mayfield  cooper's hawk swoop--      eurasian collared dove              everywhere

by David Josephsohn gulls and garbage we embrace  on the beach

by Eavonka Ettinger Rio Grande beside the north tree teens drinking 

by petro c.k. end of winter a straw effigy floats away