Category: issue 3 (Page 2 of 3)

dawn kitchen
the hollow thump
of a pumpkin

_{Vaishnavi Ramaswamy, India}

first frost ー
warming the food
for my cat

_{Keiko Izawa, Japan}

snazzily dressed
for the celebration ball –
a copse of trees

_{Jenni Wyn Hyatt, UK}

tuberose garland —
she measures the idol
by the elbow

_{Vaishnavi Ramaswamy, India}

Christmas Day –
she picks the last rose
for the table

_{Jenni Wyn Hyatt, UK}

mist
above the grove—
the hunter’s moon

_{Patricia Carragon, USA}

morning fog
the night before
still a blur

_{Thomas David, United Kingdom}

bluish fog . . .
trying to recall
grandma’s face

_{Małgorzata Formanowska, Poland}

fall’s shrinkage
hungry barnacles
latch onto boats

_{Sheikha A., United Arab Emirates}

drifting clouds
the words between
parentheses

_{Soumya Mukherjee, USA}

autumn night
ginger tea rounding
a stretch

_{Vishal Prabhu, India}

last night
in the home we grew up in …
sleep evades me

_{Kala Ramesh, India}

rain fog
    on and off
a crow’s cry

_{Keiko Izawa, Japan}

afternoon sun
two cyclamen pots
before the new grave

_{Keiko Izawa, Japan}

pink petals
         flutter—
                                     her beating heart

_{Subha, India}

backlit cumulus –
the harvest moon stretched
over a poplar sky

_{Vishal Prabhu, India}

backpack
holding two seasons
southbound

_{Nadia, India}

far from the sea
the river’s melody
meandering

_{Mark Gilbert, UK}

bare brambles the dunnock’s lone note

_{Tim Dwyer, Northern Ireland/USA}

late September—
sudden chill
of the moonshaft

_{Vishal Prabhu, India}

a singing koel
caught in my loft—
somewhere, sakura blossoms

_{Nishieeta, India}

caddisfly case
I, too, collect
what hides me

_{Nalini Shetty, India}

first recital
oak leaves pas de deuxing
downstream

_{Debbie Strange, Canada}

the rainbow
the rainbow’s shadow
autumn equinox

_{Ruth Holzer, USA}

followed
through Delhi streets
saptaparni in bloom

_{Govind Paliath, India}

Ganges ghat . . .
sunbeams sweeping
rows of reeds

_{Monica Kakkar, India and USA}

the giddy joy
of upside down
monkey bars

_{Louise Hopewell, Australia}

inglenook
dad stirs up the remnants
of dwarf red stars

_{Debbie Strange, Canada}