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our old Christmas puzzle
sticky fingerprints
on the sky

David McKee

autumn leaves falling widows and widowers

Francine Banwarth

holiday rush . . .
reshaking
a snow globe

Christopher Patchel

whisking butter and sugar
the shimmer
of last night's snow

Kathryn Haydon

missile fields
the silo lit up
by the Milky Way

Frank Higgins

curveballs we couldn't catch childhood dreams

Stephanie Zepherelli

lost in thought
the half there half not
of the day moon

Bryan Rickert

driftwood ribs
the shush
of shoreline breath

Billie Dee

meditating in the woods
today my mantra is
shagbark hickory

Michael Ketchek

breezy goldenrod
the back and forth sway
of the hive mind

John Shiffer

stilled air
a knot of tadpoles
drifts out of my shadow

Paul Chambers

three dead friends by my bed their
books of poetry

Barbara Ungar

dogwood blossoms—
a few words for the sparrow
who hit our window

Kerry J Heckman

primrose in a eulogy the carousel horses

Rowan Beckett Minor

back woods junker
honeysuckle blooms
out the sunroof

Randy Broois