Category: Issue 23.2

equinox
the leaves release…

a willow weeping
into the…

brooding
over world events…

history
in present tense…

blue moon
the scratch and…

tattered wings
the slow …

float parade
the Apple Queen’s…

flies coming back
to his …

clementines
a ring from …

a sack
of windfall apples…

prairie restoration
a hundred…

autumn morning
my granddaughter…

no gender
to the tulips
their…

expanding universe
feeling…

early dusk
the song of a lark…

needling the cat
from the…

rusted
and abandoned
summer…

finding time
on a broken …

whale-road
a rusted anchor…

monitoring the dead zone…

within the stillness rat’s…

runaway kite
tip of the string…

foster care interview
a …

seeds blown from her yard…

fallen hickory nuts
another…

            dusklight
the wake of a black

…

Victorian showcase
the …

funeral procession—
a classic…

country drive
I reorient…

thrift store
in a coat pocket…

spindrift…
another wave…

Hiroshima dome
cracked …

fallow field
a young man …

poppies at dusk
in my dream,…

Gettysburg
 catbirds at 

…

drifting snow
each of the…

waking yet not waking ……

chrysalis––
how little …

eaves dripping
what do I …

wilting peony
resting in…

putting the wild
back in …

moving in
a patch of mint…

grandmother’s house
the…

book club
a lengthy discussion…

autumn leaves
everyone …

yellow-leafed forest
beneath…

autumn the panic room inside…

wild violet
making a home…

lamplit barn
the calf inside…

foreclosed farm
dinner …

crane
   by crane
      autumn
          moves

…

burning leaves
a stranger…

appointment time
handicap…

granting me
an audience …

from the balcony
a lorikeet…

a hummingbird
inside my …

small talk
we exchange
candy…

a handful of stars
in the 

…

wildflowers
when one word…

making the most
of an old …

solstice
on its tilted axis…

Sunday church service
holding…

Advent Calendar
the final…

children’s worship…

tourist town
the ka-whop…

new voice
in the choir—
migrant…

shelling peas—
each passing…

New Year’s Day
a roseate …

creeping fog
the distant…

drifting snow
dropping …

nuthatches
inching closer…

tired
of being tired
winter…

patina
on dancing Shiva
                

…

another
           birdsong
summer

…

berries so ripe
they fall…

he whispers into my deaf …

midnight rain gathering…

storm recovery
still no …

white moon at dawn the substation’s…

a pinwheel
barely turning…

thunder moon
air holes in…

summer lightning the wait…

bridal mannequin
the price…

the things
she never celebrated…

birthday cake
this reluctance…

retirement day
re-homing…

understanding night
almost…

a cattle egret
plucks a gecko…

holiday park
in every cottage…

lottery call expressions…

smooth jazz
the bar stools…