&

hardwood pew
grandma slips me
another lifesaver

Mark Dailey

embellishing again the skipped stone of his throat

Tanya McDonald

above my door
the wasp enters
the hexagon

Jeffrey Ferrara

small town pool hall
racking them up again
the army recruiter

Frank Higgins

saying more
than I should
hard lemonade

Tia Haynes

in the shade
of the grape arbor . . .
my heart murmur

Jim Chessing

campfire sparks
teenagers
slip away

Kelly Sargent

after the funeral the hor d'oeuvres

Madhuri Pillai

jasmine
spilling over the stone wall
a come-bak-here hug

Chuck Brickley

seagull prints
the party held
without me

Kat Lehmann

used book store
listening to another
dead rock star

Robert Epstein

she deadheads
the favorite rose
moving day

Dan Schwerin

pulling weeds
one more pass
at the poem

Dan Curtis