Plum Tree Tavern

by Tom Lagasse Pine trees sway in time a chorus of bullfrog song The rocks meditate

by Ram Chandran star gazing- I remember  mom's story for each star   

 by Geoffrey Aitken   this day to day   of breathe in and out for continuing life   is difficult to support and more difficult to follow   w...

by Kathryn Holeton   Sleeping in sunlight, Bats in the attic window- hanging upside down.

by Daipayan Nair  the dragonfly  on a sunflower ...till I give up 

by Chen-ou Liu a crow perched on the bird feeder ... foreclosure sign

by Joshua St. Claire black raspberries the deer leave some for us

by Ann Chiappetta   The phenomenon of light scattering is An artifice Filtering and fooling the eye Muting the spectrum except for blue   A ...

by AE Reiff   Plenty of variables above the peaks discover cliff sheltered bays to equivocate both eye and mind above the tide of those who ...

by Jayashabari Shankar My waters are polluted, All my treasures have been looted, Plastics and trash are everywhere, They capture my fish wi...

by Douglas J. Lanzo refreshing mist remnants of thunder claps from white-frothed sea

by Joshua St. Claire tea ceremony a raccoon dips an apple in the Susquehanna

by Ceri Marriott Chilling summer's day The oaks have always been there New owner prefers stumps

by John Valentine I an old man, A dull head among windy spaces. -T.S. Eliot   Sometimes quick clearings in the night. Palimpsest, traces try...

 by AE Reiff Lost trains along the track convey the draft in flames from farms below the lines.   Giant cubes of steel out-plane and form th...

by Rongili Biswas    Love-bugs, I call them, though they have nothing to do with love. They come in late Autumn. Hordes of them. And go roun...

by Andrew Collinson Where the Tees falls off the edge Natural cold boiling guinness Violently tumbles between rocks Blundering rapidly down ...

by Ram Chandran except under a lone tree meadow full of morning sun

by Elancharan Gunasekaran  dune upon dune sand gales grasping but never catching the hawk in flight

by Jerome Berglund  why man invented fire       to cook meat Laughing Buddha

by Deborah A. Bennett the old women's eyes bloom like daisies fingers lift like lashes like the caterpillar  sliver of light against the...

by Patricia Furstenberg Days fall behind on this life Even a donkey pulls the carriage with dreams Dusty road tamed, time creased Men dancin...

by Andrew Collinson Bare gnarly oak, bank tied boulders, white water clean Newly torn limb, gone.

by Chen-ou Liu street camping alongside one stray ... then many

by Stephen A. Rozwenc In the church of the starving Crucified bread Never goes stale

by Chris Daly   I was most amazed by the way the  Attendant used the word.    For their next behavior forky and gorky  Will goose each other...

by Arianna DelMastro I wake to the birds Already singing.  Like they haven’t seen the burning trees. Like they didn’t watch us Make our brea...

by David Chorlton   How thirsty is the mountain? A hummingbird suspended in rain looks in through the window. Does it consider life’s meanin...

 by Timothy Resau   The pine branches in the fog—   The moon across the window.   The moon in the fog across the branch.

 by C.X. Turner a buzzard circling slower than clouds

by Katherine E Winnick pleasure rain the pink moon rests - nights edge

by AE Reiff   This is what the sages wrote When new age Eras tore the coasts to remyth ships of Homer out when Delphi emptied Greece that mo...

by Sean Monett This episode of  The Harmless Mistakes show Is brought to you by Crushing Regret And produced by The Traumatic Memories Group...

by Lynn White We all holidayed in Britain when I was a child and no one swam in the seas. The water was empty beyond it’s edge even on the w...

by AE Reiff   You can be unspeakable every day and question breathing back. Beginning to be winter folk began to untangle rope like water fr...

by Joanne Durham    I don’t have a personal story  to pull at your heartstrings.    Never bled sterile from a coat hanger.    Never carried ...

by Leticia Priebe Rocha   on a lilly boat 400 years ago the genocide rat fucks and fucks breeds star-spangled rat nips at chained feet spawn...

by Lara Dolphin a fearsome sinner with nothing to lose she set about righting the wilderness  one cause at a time starting with permissive g...

by Kevin Maus Sun without boundary meeting the enormity of the trees; a driving downpour of light. In the cradle near the cool mud heart. Si...

by Leticia Priebe Rocha In the song Cálice, infamously censored by the U.S. backed Brazilian military dictatorship, Chico Buarque and Milton...

by Robin Dellabough   A river of grief has evaporated: red birds fly low over the empty bed. Mothers rest on pillows of moss, hum a morning ...

by Douglas J. Lanzo gust of lake wind the diving osprey tucks a moment early

by Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo dark clouds again into the sky i fall

 by Ram Chandran drip drip from the edge of a mango leaf - moonlight

by Sharon Hilberer In a land-locked county in southern Minnesota seagulls flicker up from stubble fields.            So much whiteness.

by Kevin Maus Clean night silence offered like an eternal search, a wonder of white, thought as clean as bone laid bare. Calling.

by Leticia Priebe Rocha From the ages of two until seven, every night Mamãe would read me a story about streets lined with gold. I’d scrunch...

by Lara Dolphin brutish, hungry, unsuspecting  you helicopter from your superyacht in Marina di Carrara to my quarter   we talk of scorched ...

by Sharon Hilberer   We don’t  know why they mob up like this. In winter, Minneapolis  watches them stream in. They know things that we just...

by Chen-ou Liu one climate promise after another, another ... gathering storm