silver birch
silver birch throwing gold coins to the winter sun everything about you makes me smile — Caroline Skanne, Rochester, UK, is obsessed with anything wild and free. She is the founder of hedgerow: a...
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all your broken promises cactus flowers — Olivier Schopfer lives in Geneva, Switzerland, the city with the huge lake water fountain. He likes capturing the moment in haiku and photography....
View ArticleSome Notes toward an Ode to Yarn
YO means yarn over, a maneuver used to create a hole surrounded by a strand. Dear one, the impulse to poke a stick in a hole is irresistible. Delay tying off the knot, a foreplay of thread whereby the...
View ArticleLove Tortures Me Like the CIA
That winter I walked and walked through the frozen, dreary streets as if I might outwalk my sadness. I missed you and your gentle strokes, your iridescent glance. What we once said would last forever...
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riding pillion
— Debbie Strange is a widely published tanka and haiku poet, as well as an avid photographer. Her current passion is for creating tanshi (small poem) art. You are invited to see more of her work on...
View ArticleWinter’s Music
Sleet has a beat, a syncopation: it crackles when it hits like the rat-a-tat-tat of dried beans pouring into a pot. — Margo Roby lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she focuses on her writing, while her...
View ArticleWintry Seascape
Orangey to dark red sun over the flat, still, greenish lagoon that no passing boat will stir nor crease, nor move to compassion. All shades of blue, the blues of a still life by the sea, blend with the...
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grackles
— Angie Werren lives (and writes) in a tiny house in Ohio. Sometimes she takes pictures of things in the yard.
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When forsythia splashes winter’s gray with Pollack color, and daffodils dare the sun to match their bright with warm, when dandelions dot the lawn with smiley faces, the goldfinch sheds his olive drab...
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Issue 2: The Velocity of Night—Summary, Contents & Editor’s Note
Summary Issue 2: The Velocity of Night (Jan-Feb 2015) is an unthemed issue featuring poetry, prose, videos, and artwork from writers and artists around the world. Read online | Read the PDF (click to...
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