Plum Tree Tavern

by José Stelle The ducks must have flown, Beating their wings in the night. Ripples on slate and a light breeze Cannot console the bare...

by Kerry Kelly Ancient cliffs embrace the crushing sea's foamy wrath. Under the misty panes of ebbing tide green weeds glide, hoveri...

by Peggy Turnbull sky’s soft brush gray-feathered wet as dew plow-etched earth between dark seams of grass sturdy brown strips of...

Road Back Man Rock Caribou

by Lynda Lambert wintry nights frozen Maple branches ensnared curled russet leaves weaving on a silvery weft

by Stefanie Bennett Because happenstance likes to play truant the colour of the smoke-house is indigo... twirling much as a praye...

by Lindy Le Coq tide flat migrant flock knee deep in muck - long straight bills probe deeply for feed subarctic breeder winter coast-...

by Kristin Berger Caught in the throat             collard dove remembers a map south             survival script song locates tree th...

by Atul Kumar Nayyar Deep river changes course, Mighty mountains shift, Live oceans Become deadly deserts I never knew. Sun gets sha...

by Steve Briske You breathe in They breathe out You breathe in They breathe out That is the rhythm of life in the coordinated age Ass...

by Kristen Berger Tell me which bird wakes first. The meadowlark’s throated plea or the wren’s woodlot concerto, mourning dove releasin...

Jacob Parsons The wound is still raw A fire ripped through yesterday This place is muted now and alien and wrong Only the basic shape ...

French Kiss A leap of faith. Jezebel drinks

by Paula Weld-Cary A swarm of crows thick as a cave wall hundreds this afternoon swooping, cawing, shouting like a mob of miners in re...

by Aaron Conklin Decrepit buildings strangled with ivy, crestfallen roofs penetrated by water, saturating then drying, corroding plaster...

by Alan Britt Creepers weld hinges to darkness. Sunlight corrals clouds into Leipzig Stallions nudging & bobbing for angelic attentio...

by Carl Mayfield The cars snared by the humans sway in the smog to a dubious octane waltz. Driving from here to there requires interna...

by Stephanie V Sears Indecision before creation sea and sky still immersed in each other’s reflection. Intangible horizon veiled in n...

by Adrienne Veronese once again i have followed winter to its natural conclusion after one too many false starts toward this eventual sp...

by B. Anne Adriaens Traipsing through driftwood and debris, stumbling over tarred and feathered birds washed up on the shore, tangled ...

Locus of Divinity Element:  Fire Element: Wood

by Ilene Millman             No revenants climb the shoulder of rock only you far from home     a transient in shabby overcoat running...

by Charles Gramlich Against a backdrop of rain-gray gulls take sunlit wing

by Elaine Christie A black sweater water soaked looks like - congealed blood of a Faceless Rhino - the worlds stigmata. Chip paper with...

by Ruth Summersides Breakdown. Sunbeam breaks the dawn, Dawn breaks the mist. Black crow breaks the silence, Cuckoo breaks the egg. H...

by Diane Wing The beloved Pennypack woods embrace With branches of American beech, oak, and fern lace Fluttering excitement fills the so...

by Martin Wiles I watched the butterfly Emerge from its shell of change, I wondered at the metamorphosis— Once a caterpillar, now...

by John Voulgaris Some say, I am the most beautiful thing in life. But the truth is, I am only a short living flower. I can make a singl...

by Steve Dieffenbacher Here, along the unused tracks, noisy waxwings disperse to rejoin in nearby willows. Beside the muddy road that...

by Stacey Zisook Robinson In the beginning - when there was mostly just dark, and light and a little bit of chaos to sweeten the pot, G...

by B. Anne Adriaens A prefab dream fed by Nestlé – compulsory joy catching at times – imitates life in plastic, greying and weathering i...

by Gale Acuff One day I’ll be dead and then I’ll show God who’s King of the Jungle since He’s dead, too, He’s old-dead but me, I’ll be n...

by Katie Gray Blue sky misbehaves Ocean waves come out to play Coney Island Queen Provocative sun Ocean waves making me cry The suns...

by Denny E. Marshall Fall echoes “Help I’m falling” Winter says, “Don’t worry” I’m right behind you

by Anita Sullivan The bird sings. See the beak vibrate, almost a blur, as if it were flexing like a fiddle string, which surely it must ...

by William Allen Before there was you, Before there was me, There was the Storm. She does not hunt for a kill. She does not desire you...

by David Subacchi Slowly it crept up from the drain, Spiny fingers feeling out cracks In the crumbling stone wall That blocked daylight...

by g emil reutter Summer is slowly fading into autumn as October fluctuates from warmth to frost and yet the perennials continue on. A sm...

by Margarita Serafimova Pheasants are making love by the green grass, and their cries are secret like the leafless bush.

by Ann Hunkins Oak-tannic rooted stream trout trap up under dark rock hang turgid foam froth towhee twit tangle thorn chokecherry glut...

by Lynda Lambert silver glazed meadow velvet sumac trees clustered on the ridge cool  frost on bare branches black-capped chickadees l...

by Pepper Trail Things seen and unseen compose the world And where they meet, you make your life. Watching you glide across sun and clou...

by Lynda Lambert lyrical songs mingle through foggy layers abandoned  nests hidden among wet branches mulberry trees without tender be...

by Ann Hunkins Seven nights of rain in the high desert. Steam puffs off flowering chamisa, woody apache plume, curled gramma grass. Eve...

by Thriveni C. Mysore Raging wild-fire swept through sun-burnt forest. Seven dawns passed through smoky air that carried stifled scare...

by Margarita Serafimova Allah is calling the parakeets to pass over the grass, and they are passing, greener than light.

by Carl Mayfield hummingbird still between his wings