Iris' Blues for her Painter		Jeffrey Ethan Lee
Rain Barrel Nursery		Francis Masat
Loop		L.Ward Abel
Galileo		Ron Buck
When There Was Morning Light		Allen Ansell
Baby Poet		John Shaw
Piaf		Stephen Mead
Saturn Rockets		Ray Succre
Dancing Alone In My Kitchen		Vicki L. Wilson
Treacle Toffee		Valerie McKinley
Mercurials		Taylor Graham
Persian		Richard Storey
The Rhinoceros		Richard Fein
All is Divine		Rama Devi
Ode to Grief		Paul A. Freeman
Ode to a Favourite Armchair		Paul A. Freeman
Going Strong		Michael Levy
The Possibility of Making Love		John Shaw
Worship		Michael Estabrook
Come-Back		Richard Storey
The Tricycle		Valerie McKinley
The Coyote Trickster Is Consciousness		Michail Kyril
The Lyric and the Lie		Mercedes Lawry
This Aging Thing		Marguerite Costigan
Circumventing Light		Kit Kennedy
Swallowing Summer		Kimberlee Edgecomb
The Tamar Estuary		Josie Abram
Woman in a White Coat		John Thomson
The Silence Behind Your Words		Laala Kashef Alghata
Writer's Block		John Magee
Homebody		John D. Brooke
Body Secrets		Elizabeth Howard
Two Venetian Interiors		Davide Trame
Space Available		Taylor Graham
Tumbling		Karen Corcoran Dabkowski
Rosemary, Sorrel and Thyme		Christine A. Clatworthy
Summer's End		Catherine Edmunds
But I'm a Woman Now		Vicki L. Wilson
My Memories of Orlando, Florida		Bryon D. Howell
Oath, and everything still fits		Beth Stolar Kehayes
Final Horizon		Allen Ansell
Where once were Trees grew Poppy Fields		Brian L. Porter
The Poem I should have written		Leah Browning
Senses		Luigi Pagano
Richtameter		Rhonda Parrish
Vagabond's Vision #97		Felino Soriano
Voyager		Daniel Wilcox
Envious Trench		Kim Mulroney
Spinning Catamenia		Ray Succre
Eating in America		Carl Palmer
Longing is a Lift		Rama Devi
Free Will		Michael Levy
Emily Dickinson		Michael Estabrook
The Bathers		Mercedes Lawry
Sandpiper Summer		Kimberlee Edgecomb
Kiss My Knuckles While I Hold Your Soul		Laala Kashef Alghata
Mary		Catherine Edmunds
Screwdriver Mathematics		Carl Palmer
My Three Muses		Bryon D. Howell
A good wife		Beth Stolar Kehayes
Touring the Breakers Mansion		Leah Browning
Stairway to Heaven		Luigi Pagano
Ms. Chong's Room		Rhonda Parrish
A Word from the Tree		Daniel Wilcox
Defector		Kim Mulroney

Piaf

by Stephen Mead

Piaf, sparrow littlest,
The tremulous throat,
The tune of the thrush
With tragic vibrato
Thunderously echoing
Yes, how resonance lasts, ....

All is Divine

by Rama Devi

The throes
of woes
and blows
upon life’s path

align
with laughs
on graphs
with equal math.
....

Loop

by L.Ward Abel

Trees
on fire with autumn
and I have nothing
on my mind,
standing at the glass,
Chopin or Tyner ....

Treacle Toffee

by Valerie McKinley

Mum loved the wintertime.
When we were kids
she could always fool us with the clock
and get us ....

Mercurials

by Taylor Graham

At the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec

Just for now they gather
at the corner table, faces pale
or ashen ....

The Tricycle

by Valerie McKinley

The tricycle tantalised me
it stood between us
like a tyrant's taunt.
We were buddies you and I
....

Iris' Blues for her Painter

by Jeffrey Ethan Lee

before the words if only—
before the world of could be—

there the long sun-beaten grasses
drew us far ....