Plum Tree Tavern

by Christina Chin Morning thrushsong winter mountain In  the cedar woods

by Carl Mayfield  a few starlings--   murmuration     rippling the blue

by Yash Seyedbagheri road curves full of dirt and gravel along with shadows and midafternoon light sky is pale blue. a stump sits among lean...

by Wesley D. Sims    Near nightfall a great egret flaps in over a copse of hardwood trees, takes up station beside dull green reeds, now sli...

by Rose Menyon Heflin Regal Sandhill cranes high-stepping silently, slowly, grubbing their way across the open field are migrating, going so...

by Sterling Warner   Winter vortex taps frozen oak ferns and grass snakes leaves snowy shrouds dusts Olympic Mountain crests far across the ...

by Maia Persche Under the purple dogwood leaves close to the prairie grasses sinking down. A thin note, an icicle falling into snow. A breez...

 by Larissa Peters The silent float into a crisp cold. A simple touch could  disintegrate  the very  veins [            ] of the  hundred ...

by Tom Husson The wood railings are capped  in the storm, Cardinal’s red feather  arrows fly from snowy ground  onto grey branches, milkweed...

by Douglas J. Lanzo evening crows gather at Silver Creek waters peering at rainbow trout 

by Clint Bowman Water droplets          tap smooth granite,                                   seep                                   into   ...

by Susan N Aassahde auburn combine fleece noon easel  pontoon snow ricochet

by Carol Farnsworth red seed pods stand tall amidst rosy leaves

by Carol Farnsworth sassafras burnt orange in undergrowth sway in wind

by Marla Sterling Aged oyster shell, adrift on the sand rocked by the shore’s gentle waves; moved, defiant of station in life or in death Dr...

by Marilyn Dancing Deer Ward across the beck willowherb seeds  on autumn wind

by John Muro   Bright enough to serve As footlights, chrysanthemums Of nursery pink and milk- Tooth white appear like Garden lanterns, flore...

by Shelly Jones  We don our masks each morning, step out into crisp  sunshine, head up the hill, backs hunched, legs  propelling us back in ...

by M. Bennett The Osage Orange hedgerow  torn utterly from its foundation.  Only a few mangled, lemon-curry roots  lay exposed against darke...

by Pepper Trail   The mountain is a mountain of stone The valley is a valley of dust   The mantra in my head, making the drive from Summer L...

by Royal Rhodes A Ring-billed gull gulping cast-off waste around a hulking rusty hull that roamed the gulf's expanse ate the rubbish in ...

by Marilyn Dancing Deer Ward wild barley balances  a drop of rain 

by Larkin Pazanova Mountains rise harsh Sun bakes the cracked grass The Baileya still blooms

by Christina Chin darkening  the autumn sunset  kraa of crows 

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