Health Crisis
By David JosephsohnGreensboro, North Carolina, USA health crisisher long journeyto another state Cold Moon JournalJanuary 6, 2024
Barbed Wire
By David JosephsohnGreensboro, North Carolina, USA an unplannedbody piercing—barbed wire
Border Crossing
By David JosephsohnGreensboro, North Carolina, USA border crossingyesterday’s strugglesreplaced by today’s
Tomorrow
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA only two Monarchs spiraling up the sky maybe they'll see …
War News
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA war news . . .a road-killed Sparrowcradled in my palm
One Clover and a Bee
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA Dark-eyed and playful, childlike but childless, Elizabeth Ann needs an emergency hysterectomy or…
Dead End
by Sangita KalarickalEden Prairie, Minnesota, USA My Monstera Deliciosa looks sad. The leaves are starting to yellow. I glance at…
Spring Breeze
By Theresa CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA spring breeze . . .the beggar and Ishare smiles
Battlefield
By Theresa CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA battlefield...all the facesof sunflowers
Air Raid Siren
By Theresa CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA air raid siren—a little girl lullabiesher doll
Patchwork Quilt
By Kelly SargentWilliston, Vermont, USA
Humanitarian Aid
By John PappasBoston, Massachusetts, USA humanitarian aidspilling out of the baga parent’s hope
Boy with a Bow
By Gary LeBel "Bring me my Bow of burning gold"William Blake, Jerusalem He may be all of ten. He's hiked…
Plastic Apocalypse
By Anna CatesWilmington, Ohio, USA “Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.”—Loudon Wainwright III…
Ode to the Dragon Rider
By Anna CatesWilmington, Ohio, USA I have panted for green placesstanding before statues:admirable men to questionable menmortals on horses, Confederate…
To Each Their Own
By Anna CatesWilmington, Ohio, USA version of justiceimage of godprayers at duskon either side of invisible linesshifting left or rightat…
New Year
By Sankara Jayanth SudanaguntaHyderabad, India new year...the bullet-riddled shopfrontgets a makeover Failed Haiku, Issue #85
The Iconoclasm of Artifice
by Edward Cates and Anna Cates To me, ancient ruinsAre always preferableTo stark metropolitan glitz Let me see the placesWhere time…
The Cyclorama
By Tish DavisConcord Township, Ohio, USA as blood seepsfrom the soldiers’ earshandmade bone dicetumble out of crevicesin the hastily built…
Turtle Moon
By R. Suresh BabuChikmagalur, Karnataka, India turtle moonan overturned frisbeeon the beach