Incantations
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, NC, USA forestsburning far awayI bowto the wood thrushsinging orisons unseen I follow a path along…
Just This
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, NC, USA I used to thinkit would last forever—the swallowscoming home each year,the green hills blossoming…
The Least of These
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, NC, USA Hokusai painted them, Issa wrote about them, and Mao did his best to exterminate…
Murky Lake
By Theresa CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA murky lake . . .long tears cloudthe buffalo's eye
The Intruder
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USAA glimpse of white wing bars, half hidden among juniper and honeysuckle. Uncertain, I…
All of Us
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA all of usfrom blowfly to blue whalebirthright citizensof a dying planet . .…
Gas lit
By Melissa DennisonBradford, Yorkshire, England From boreal forests in the Arctic Circle to Hawaii and Malibu, every year more and…
Lipstick
By Florence HeyhoeCounty Down, Northern Ireland lipstick —the cosmetic trade flaying donkeys Further reading: End the Donkey Skin Trade
The Urge
By Rebecca DrouilhetPicayune, Mississippi, USA the urgeto flow beyond my banks . . .a drop of waterlonging to gowhere oceans…
Early Dusk
By John PappasBoston, Massachusetts, USA early dusk reaching into the warren winter’s chill
Late October
By: Steve Van AllenCincinnati, Ohio, USA, Earth global warming?a beautiful spring daylate October
The Blue Dot
By Bryan D. CookOrleans, Ontario, Canada Cloaked from earthling sight, two extraterrestrial fortune hunters gaze down at planet Earth. “Which…
Oriental Plane
By Diana WebbLeatherhead, Surrey, UK It towers above the park this tree . An ancient haven with countless generations of…
Sooty Smokestacks
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA sooty smokestackswhere dinosaursonce grazed
Faint Aurora
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA faint aurora . . .a polar bear clambersonto the shrinking floe
Crude
Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA unmixed oil slicks press against dolphin skin fall leaves…a plastic bag gapeswide as Texas First…
Broken Bottle
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA broken bottleat the end of the pathblue-eyed grass First published in Plum Tree Tavern, 2015
Crack of Dawn
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA crack of dawn —fireflies escapethe jar First published in Chrysanthemum #18, 2015
Anthropocene
By Steve Van AllenCincinnati, Ohio, USA, Earth hawaiian honeycreeper guam flying fox bachman's warbler yellow blossom pearlymussel scioto mad tom…
The Nature of Falling
By Rebecca DrouilhetPicayune, MS, USA Sometimes I still dream of those two old oaks on my grandparent’s old farm. Lightning…