Pachamama
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA Long ago, in a sacred valley where Inca kings and mountain glaciers reigned,…
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…
Fewer Butterflies
By Florence HeyhoeCounty Down, Northern Ireland fewer butterflies—places at the tableemptied by war
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…
Hemorrhage
By Carissa CoaneCalifornia, United States of America Daughter, is it fair to keep you,knowing what you will inherit?Will you understand the…
unmarked graves
By Debbie StrangeCanada The Bamboo Hut, Number 2, September 2023
firewhirl
By Debbie StrangeCanada Frameless Sky, Issue 17, December 2022
Treaty 1
By Debbie StrangeCanada Shortlisted Vispo, 2023 Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest Artist’s Statement:A word-weaving of culled Wikipedia details regarding Treaty…
Vrindāvan
By Monica KakkarIndia and United States of America wind without colorhues widows of Vrindāvan—forsaken in droves Further reading: https://www.policycircle.org/ground-report/widows-in-india-unseen-problems/ Prompt:…
Formal Declaration of 9
By: Ken ScottLos Angeles, California, USA It is time for us to end this.It is time for us to end…
Early Dusk
By John PappasBoston, Massachusetts, USA early dusk reaching into the warren winter’s chill
New Allergies
By Elizabeth CrocketOntario, Canada
Fish out of Water
By Elizabeth CrocketOntario, Canada
Descendents of an Antiquated Paradigm
By Richard Grahn (Editor's Contribution)Evanston, Illinois, USA the neverending TV screenbatters our brains with atrocitiesconditions of pain and eternal strifethe…
First Glance
By Florence HeyhoeCounty Down, Northern Ireland Looking at both cars, he doesn’t see any damage. His door barely touched the…
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…