We begin our 19th year with…
Category: Issue 19.1
pruning –
the spring…
spring thaw
seeping into…
st patrick’s day…
eleven snowdrops
my mother’s…
cultivating
my love for …
his just shaved face
the …
forsythia bush
chirping…
first buds …
the Morse…
bent at the tip
a few of my …
Fallow
I always wondered who planted…
morning news
the rising …
bento box
compartmentalizing…
from deadlines
to deadlines-…
busy all day
with their origami…
uncoupling…
row …
broken marriage
bedrock…
rain shower–
an old…
within rain…
just…
thunder and lightning
holding…
long sermon–
biscuits…
earthsong
a heartbeat
in…
dappled blue
a Holstein …
road map the X no one remembers…
ice-locked lake
countless…
mouth of the river
an ever-changing…
cherry blossom rain
those…
supernova. . .
the years …
living alone
in the attic…
remembering
the patterns…
sunrise
barred light on …
border diner
locals fill…
train ride
pulling away…
chattering crows–…
late night at the laundromat…
making sandcastles
my son…
blood moon
my birth mother…
the ocean
was in a rage last…
Nantucket Island
silence…
loop trail
but for now
just…
slow pitch
delivering another…
gibbous moon
one egg short…
quince buds
trying to explain…
a shift
in the breeze……
spring fever
he offers me…
bougainvillea
I carry my…
no one left
who remembers…
oxbow lake
a rusty horseshoe…
wilderness
one more stop…
not quite Mozart the staccato…
still filling
the room you…
flubbed grounder
the warmth…
elegy
the boy soprano’s…
the awkward
saunter of a …
overcast
the fluffed up …
bushfire day–
two…
climate change a neighbor…
it’s a monologue…
hot day sitting inside the…
stifling heat
a spoon full…
the soft patter of an old …
#@!?*^
i rehash old
passwords…
thrift store
the mannequin…
dappled light
blackbird…
Abu Dhabi
above the falcon’s…
summer street
a boy rides…
using one
to bookmark another…
sunbeam
under the overpass…
just enough
for the trumpet…
power outage
the distant…
summer twilight
the sound…
after the scan
the hospital…
Lakeview, Chicago
I used…
pain meds
wandering a maze…
living will —
she …
hospice pond
a ripple settles…
with nicotine-stained…
Winter evening
sunset
in…
the old elm
its darkness …
sick in winter
the infinite…
crescent moon
she leans …
falling snow –
the…
late winter cough
the crack…
bean harvest
a snail’s…
redwood time . . .
the steady…
anniversary
of Apollo 11–…
mid-July
the wheat field…
cricket songs
all of them…
wild orchid
clinging to …
Autumn afternoon
we keep…
beach roses
getting changed…
wiping sand
from the broken…
dusk crawls across the field…
Blue air whispers
smoke …
an eagle shadows a wheat …
no wind
in the wheat
autumn…
summer ends
the street vendor’s…
World Series
the crickets…
the fragrance
of pencil …
sunlight
on a crow’s…