Anthropocene
By Steve Van AllenCincinnati, Ohio, USA, Earth hawaiian honeycreeper guam flying fox bachman's warbler yellow blossom pearlymussel scioto mad tom…
A Disease Called Power
Opinion: By Noris RobertsLecheria Municipio Urbaneja, Venezuela I will begin by pointing out that this is not intended as a…
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…
The Last Fable
By Rebecca DrouilhetPicayune, MS, USA At midnight the little mouse lights a flickering candle and dips her heavy quill in…
Ceasefire
By Tuyet Van DoVictoria, Australia ceasefire . . .a man in the rubblecollecting body parts First published in Synchronized Chaos,…
Renascence
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA No cougars are supposed to roam the Appalachian mountains. They’re supposed to be…
The Spinning Wheel
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA milkweed bloomsat the meadow’s edgeshe waitsfor the monarch’s blessingunder a shattered sky one…
Evensong
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA butterflies flutterfrom the artist’s brushin memoriam—a river of monarchsonce flowed across the sky…
Out of Season
By Doug SylverSeattle, Washington, USA Not that it wasn’t appreciated however unexpected Not that it wasn’t beautiful however out of…
The garden in November
By Doug SylverSeattle, Washington, USA Preparing it for sleep with maple leaves in various stages of decay a foot thick…
This time
By Doug SylverSeattle, Washington, USA This is when the Quileute tribe calls getting to be the time of no more…
Not Somewhere Else But Here
By Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan A poem asks the reader to participate in the making of its meaning, and in this…
Help
By Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan lightimprisoned in diamondsthe dark mine a dollar a day windblown sand –children in ragsstaring as the…
Once Bereft
By Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan What would the world be, once bereftOf wet and of wildness? Let them be left — Gerard…
Bleeding Skies
by Florence HeyhoeCounty Down, North Ireland bleeding skies children playing in mine fields
Predators
by Florence HeyhoeCounty Down, North Ireland predators on the web trafficking
As Einstein would say
By Diana WebbLeatherhead, Surrey, UK She is walking back from the supermarket, bag weighed down by difficult choices, when in the…
After the Bomb
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA after the bombin each window shardreflected stars First published in The Bamboo Hut, February 2024
First Day
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA first dayat rehabchild's pose
Open Carry
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA sliver moon --in the dead of nightopen carry