Duck and Cover

By Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan The Cuban Missile Crisis. I was in grade school and we had drills. The same loud…

October Showers

By: Regina (Gina) PiroskaTurners Beach, Tasmania, Australiaoctober showersa blackbird tugs at the wormstretchingwe prepare to join the group at a yoga…

Magpie

By: Regina (Gina) PiroskaTurners Beach, Tasmania, Australia the magpiepostures on a sheep's backin tall wheat grassthe discarded red remainsof a…

A cloud of blackbirds

By Melissa DennisonBradford, Yorkshire, England I am standing with my pen poised to record but it's so quiet and still.…

Exponential

By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois USA My muse has seduced me again. You’re the Writer.  You’re the only one who can…

Night Vision

By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA clear-cut . . .the quavering cryof a screech owl I am driving up…

eco-tourism

By Debbie StrangeCanada Failed Haiku Journal of English Senryū, Volume 4, Issue 39, March 2019

derecho

By Debbie StrangeCanada Prune Juice (cover), Issue 38, December 2022

BEACHED

By Regina (Gina) PiroskaTasmania, Australia Heat hangs, torrid, pressing upon tired shoulders. Touched by the occasional warm starfish an ancient,…

Dining Out . . . 

By: Anna Cates, Wilmington, Ohioand Steve Van Allen, Cincinnati, Ohio even on gray daysthe sun fights to silver sheenbeyond cloud cover…

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…