Plum Tree Tavern

by Christina Chin whirling  drift wood red with silt plum rain season

by Anita Sullivan The Anna's hummingbird sitting on the willow twig makes a private, smug little sound like gargling zippers. She is tak...

by Howie Good   They’re what happens when flickers of flame can survive in water

by Veronika Zora Novak crouching feral cat the swaying glow  of pampas grass 

by Yash Seyedbagheri   Up Sunrise Drive, Ponderosa pines line the road black shadows a nearly full moon is in the sky pine needles sprinkled...

by  Rp verlaine lightning storm wearing black better than night

by I.W.B.S. Sister Lou Ella Hickman wind    blowing seaward the door opens    i stand watching the wind tomorrow    my son will die the door...

by Ray Greenblatt they are listening, in the growing season the speckled light is part of their covering . . . in winter woods they can see ...

by Rachel Lee Saturday evening, orange-gold light slants through the palm grove, glazes across the clearing. Here, the rose-ringed parakeets...

by Shannon Cuthbert   Birthed in a time of drought and flame, a cacophony of gypsy moths with mouths like our own. Later we’ll find it hard ...

by Virginia Aronson Consider the turning of the sun and staring up waiting for fever, questioning blinding reflections as a double conscious...

by Stephen Lang Desperate, she burrows into soft flesh- Shedding her subtle, ethereal wings That sped her on this single flight- The clandes...

by Lynne Goldsmith You’re hanging on with taproot intact, reddish-purple blooms, shallow ground among pinion, juniper, sagebrush spread...

by Dmitry Blizniuk   The brief rain is over, but it has glazed the world, and a crow fools around trying to catch water drops falling from t...

by Pamela Nocerino   Riverside dirt  was the bed in more generous weather. Now, smooth gravel and unnatural debris tuck the edges of barely-...

by GTimothy Gordon   The full moon rises, pauses, takes its place among all               midsummer stars not known for color, shape, size, ...

by Arriama Matlock-Abdullah  Shag wood hickory Bark jetting away from the tree trunk Suspended in mid air  

by Darrell Petska gray squirrel measured steps forward hold side flip left hold side flip right millisecond hold dart toward fence...

by Shayan Kothari (high school writer) Splayed wings of a kingfisher  make seldom appearance  above city embers. The sky slumbers, finally. ...

by Lynne Goldsmith No brewer’s blackbird in the lavender but a brotherhood of cowbirds’ oratorio of feasting on a stump with seeds and crack...

by Elise Woods Ripping wheat from fields Deer abundant til winter Harvest will provide

by Darrell Petska Craggy burr oaks blot a waning moon. In the savanna, cricket songs cease. A screech owl somewhere among the stars has t...

by Pawel Markiewicz autumnal buckrams the last roses sobbing of flowering seasons

by Rabbi Steven Lebow   Blossom of pure light,  white body of a woman on a stem.  without you, the world will not slough off its snow,  nor ...

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