Mark Gilbert

corridor conversation
my conscience
is killing me

— Mark Gilbert

Randy Brooks

late autumn petunias
outlived
mother too

— Randy Brooks

window thump!

the yellow-rump warbler’s

broken neck

— Randy Brooks

Roberta Beach Jacobson

behind
the school’s red bricks
asbestos

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

John Hawkhead

lifting a hagstone
from the breakwater
a locked-in scream

— John Hawkhead

a trail of blood

through virgin snow

stains that never fade

— John Hawkhead

Lorraine A Padden

snow glow from the waist down cement moon

— Lorraine A Padden

wasp waisted

jealous of what flies by

her hourglass

— Lorraine A Padden