Plum Tree Tavern

by Carol Farnsworth a spit of land waves tumble smooth stones litter the sand

by Ahrend Torrey           A subtle chain of countless rings                    The next unto the farthest brings…                   —  ...

by Carl Mayfield coachwhip snakes     mating in the shade        of the cedar tree

by Patricia Hope Dawn On Watts Bar Lake Geese honk Water laps Chickadees chatter Swallows dive Ducks quack Mayflies amass Egrets s...

by Padmini Krishnan  dawn drizzle a Wood Pigeon’s new tune

by Yash Seyedbagheri Over Warm Springs Road, sun falls along with graying shadows dead Ponderosa pine leans sky light blue

by Mark Danowsky two goldfinches alight on a blush rose bush across from the Wawa

by Chris Butler The human mind is a mile wide but only six inches deep. But when hunger growls, the human mind is the first chew toy.

by Kaitlyn Jensesn blood moon leaks red in all directions as if an empty tavern bathed in neon light on the road to Winters

by Patricia Hope The jungle inhales The jungle swells The jungle prowls The jungle slithers The Jungle crawls The jungle assassinates...

by Philip C.  Kolin cotton fields after harvesting a cloudless sky

by Michael H. Brownstein south wind night falls trees go to shadows and darkness and then a slew of boasting katydids katy-did-katy-d...

by  Kathleen Williamson Pink moon rises— starlings in the oak go silent

by Juliet Wilson heat haze swallows laze across the lake to catch mayfly for the mayfly iridescent in the sun this languid day ...

by Jeff Burt Hummingbirds hover while orange Chinese lanterns quake spring yet continues

by Maria DePaul Nautical twilight Gulls cry echoes Waves crest and break

by Juliet Wilson Amur leopard knows nothing of borders or memorandums of understanding and wouldn't recognise the names Putin or Xi....

by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad The cliffs of Bombo Headland burn in a fuschia sunset crags and ridges awash in a medley of violet a...

by Catherine Saccone Magnolia warbler calling loud & bright through white ash & hickory.

by Bonnie Stanard Behind the jassamine vines the sun becomes chaffs of light. Hoots and haws from noisy crows rout a flock of robins p...

by Carl Mayfield two ravens determined juniper berries resistant sky flashing blue through the tree

by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad Through sacred lands the waters of the Murrambidgee course in crimson sheets thousand year old River ...

by Carl Mayfield   both sides                   of a locked gate--              cassin's vireo song

by Alice Campbell Romano after last night’s rain jacaranda nearly bare bark gray brown grass a lavender stain

by Yash Seyedbagheri Ponderosa pines rise in black shadows cabins through the groves lights faint and yellow a moon 96% full, s...

by Joshua Fagan The silver lake leaps Into a spotted frog’s mouth. Ripples grow and fade.

by Mary McCormack red-eyed cicada struggles up blades of grass--then flies, suddenly graceful

by Carol Casey bringer of joy ruby throated in magenta lupines wings invisible now here, now there now gone.

by Andrew Hutto A bowl of roseate spoonbills stir when the lagoon wakes shutter the mangrove forest. Marsh rabbits and stone crabs hid...

by Sarah-Jane Crowson The hollow road’s all snarled with thorns, fringed with stinging plants, the path lost in hundred-eyed branches, w...

by Diane Sahms As if every sound has its own shape, purpose. His song, distilled. His black-hooded head & brilliant semi-circle of r...

by Trishita Das crow blots itself into the skin of the sky, crow pulls the smell of rot from corpses, crow cackles into the night's ...

by Christina Chin billowing red sails in morning mists Halong Bay

by Padmini Krishnan The spring moon melts into a tree yellow butterfly on the almond bush

by Sarah-Jane Crowson Summer Savory, lemon-spiced, softer than Rosemary. Dark green leaf-spears glow with oil. Mercury claims ...

by Ann Boaden After rain herbs smell of themselves. Cleared and crystalized with wet, they skein away green down a summer roadside: hef...

by James Bell a violent rainstorm beats down on four travellers who hasten along their path in a defile between the hills - the roofs ...

by I.W.B.S. Sister Lou Ella Hickman                          after summer rain                      leaves in wind               rustle ...

by Feston Altus When the rain ends Green buds speckle The black spring oak Two damp whitetail deer step across a frostless stream.

by Saharsh Sateesh Winter mist chisels crevices into Mount Shuksan.

by Randall Rogers Tickle my fancy deadly asp for I enjoy life knowing I'm gonna die (death); wisdom flees from a surfeit of sec...

by Ian McFarland I can see the world, just as clearly as I am able to describe it. Balanos adds        another shade of meaning. Ma...

by John Grey A solitary egret rides in on a floating island. Mangrove twine sips brackish water. Snake slithers through the tangle,  ...

by John Hawkhead winter sun blue notes in a minor key fresh snow

by Connor Orrico as dusk settles in Fontaine hamlet the Equus bray

by Anannya Uberoi an apple tree plunging, the elm parroting, a gamble of eggs

by M.J. Iuppa This country air smells heavy & strangely thick— green fumes of cabbage— a whole field never picked, but left to expo...

by Terrence Sykes upon my stone wall lizard flashes rainbow tail seasons come early what do you forage dandelions plucked for lunch ...

by Yash Seyedbagheri At the end of Sunset Drive where the road curves pines rise black shadows sky a deep velvet frogs calling Venus...

by Martha Landman Rain forced in by Antarctic winds drenches pepper trees, oaks and fern. Lorikeets’ green, yellow and red defy the su...