A New Bird feeder
By Kathabela WilsonPasadena, California, USA a new bird feederto inspire usbluebirdscardinals, mourning dovesbreaking bread together
Sometimes
By Kathabela WilsonPasadena, California, USA sometimessometimeswe don’t knowwhat we’ve sownin the minds of infantsthe turmoil we can’t control
Planting Seeds
Kathabela Wilson - Pasadena, California, USA (kw)Jackie Chou - Pico Rivera, California, USA (jc)Sigrid Saradunn - Bar Harbor, Maine, USA (ss) a dark sideand a sunlit spacein the mindsof our new generation howto nourish their best inclinations (kw) edible seedsadd texture to the fleshof the dragon fruitif only he could seepast my spiky exterior (jc) learningto choose peace at leadership campIrish teens room withIsraelis and Palestinians (ss) sometimeswe don’t knowwhat we’ve sownin the minds of infantsthe turmoil we can’t control (kw) on the borderI drop seedsto both sidessunflowers and poppieswatering them with tears (kw) leaving the shellsof her sunflower seedsover the tablewhat example was momplanting in me (jc) Thanksgiving in Junecelebrating Seeds of Peacesharing a common mealstrangers now friends with similar feelings (ss) a new…
The Green
By Kathabela WilsonPasadena, California, USA It was a tree, becomes a song, a table, leaf after leaf, opening. We sit around its absence as it floats on memory. Shapeshifter becomes dreamcatcher, an escape hatch, small carved windmills turning very fast. We pull up small stumps polished clean. congress of earthlingsconsidering the revivalof greenwe fall asleepin different languages First Place - Science Fiction Poetry Association's Dwarf Stars Award, 2018. First published in the Glass Lyre Press anthology, Carrying the Branch - Poets in Search of Peace.