Plum Tree Tavern

by John Grey The crows perch on the upper branches, three glossy-coated undertakers clucking how good they have it. On the roadway bel...

by Lydia Chapman Grass among gravestones keeping good company to the forgotten

by Darrell Petska Cottonwood ragged rustling billowing squall line strikes branches clash: east-leaning, diseased lateral, hangin...

by Roberta Beach Jacobson wrapped in the colors of autumn the river

by Katherine Burris The crow begins its day early beating the pheasant’s squawk for the harsh welcoming sound of morning. It surve...

by Douglas J. Lanzo bright green grasshopper plods along lakeshore hoisted by an ant

by Melissa Kelly Jones beach is empty except for bluish grey shells along the shore white foam from rough waves And the seagull searchi...

by Rob Lowe There is a slowness in English autumns, A pause, an appearance, before the Fall; Balanced withholding from sudden changes, To sl...

by Douglas J. Lanzo Belted Kingfisher perched high above the lake preens blue-feathered crown

by Stephen A. Rozwenc not natural or ethereal not composed of elements from any needy origin story this particular Bangkok morning rev...

by Yash Seyedbagheri Down Sunrise Drive sky is pale blue, pink, and tangerine orange shadows on the road Ponderosa pines darkened air ...

by John Dorroh Fires come in many flavors: Orange Crush with its fluorescence fogging the bottle from the inside out, inviting thirsty g...

by Douglas J. Lanzo rain-soaked otters slip down river banks hunting for brook trout

by Ankit Anand Mallard dabblers Plunge the shallows For freshwater shrimp

by Carol Farnsworth After cricket’s chirps before the sunrise    silence

by Ankit Anand When the Eagle has had its fill The Caracara move in Black vultures bide their time Turkey vultures keep their distance

by Ankit Anand Eucalyptus Chirps Till silence.

by Carol Farnsworth ebb and flow whitecapspushed by wind erode Sleeping Bear dunes

by Susan N Aassahde magpie crayon blimp host cot butterfly Gorgon spire

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...