Becoming Autumn 

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our voices rising scent of the sea

 

Aidan Castle

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empty chair

the shape of the mountain

before us

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Alan Peat

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hot sun

the rain up

out of the grass

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Shawn Blair

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barely 

reaching the pedals

tadpoles

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Denise Fontaine

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sunlit dewdrops 

on the grassy field 

child’s first poem  

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Hifsa Ashraf

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lucid dreaming

the flight path

of a cabbage white

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Kristen Lindquist

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swimming between jetties Cape morning

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Deborah Burke Henderson

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she longs to journey

across the sky

balloon flower…

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Adele Evershed

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monkey flowers . . .

the children playing

dress up

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Stephanie Story

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a sudden pop

of memory

cloudberries

John Hawkhead

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an inch 

above the ocean 

a butterfly

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Ann Smith

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white clover

the art of

lying in fields

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Kevin Browne

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parhelion

sun shares

its aura

Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

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tribal village –

hearing my neighbour sing

in her treehouse 

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Daipayan Nair

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summer break -

swans crossing over

the skytorn lake

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Maire Morrissey Cummins

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swapping words for smiles wildflowers 

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Jenny Fraser

 

 

    distant                                    echoes

            of  sea                        gulls

                    and             ravens

                              equi

                                no

                                  x

 

Sandra St-Laurent

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in the children’s ward
sunlight through the shades
a thousand origami cranes

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S. Michael Kozubek

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humpback tail splash

a child on the boat

waves back

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Deborah P Kolodji

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kayak river tour

the kingfisher

everyone else saw

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Lee Hudspeth

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shallow bay

nurse sharks asleep

in the sea grass

 

Shawn Blair

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overripe oranges 

the most of 

this grief 

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Hifsa Ashraf

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between dolphins cresting heartbeats 

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Eric Sundquist

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a heron’s flight

in my

self-propelled wheelchair

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Goran Lowie

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blue sky,

billowing thunderheads

   my climate change

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Ken Mory

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coastline view
hummingbirds
in the sage

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Deborah P Kolodji

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summer lingers one peony 

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Deborah A. Bennett

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U turns…
the way sheep will follow
their leader

 

Dorothy Burrows

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last night's

shared bottle of sake

empty sky

 

Alvin Cruz

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earthquake I grab for sky

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Roberta Beach Jacobson

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drooping sunflowers
looking at problems
from a new angle

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Adelaide Shaw

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the fox

frightens the chickens

fake news

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Jim Force

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secret ‘love you’ notes

from one tree to another

bird song

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Carolyn Field

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window amaryllis –                                                      

the sky enters my room

through a hole in the petal

 

Silva Trstenjak

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floodwater

the least we know 

about a river 

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Hifsa Ashraf

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attended

by a single bee

the last rose

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Rohan Buettel 

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mistral

outdoor cafe

a vortex of receipts

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Ross Neher

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endless sky

our picnic smoke

captures a lark's song

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David He Zhuanglang

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sea glass

what will

remain of us

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Stefanie Bucifal

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scorched earth 

a child cups the rain 

in her palms 

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Meera Rehm

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late summer lake

a raft of loons

rides the sunset 

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Kristen Lindquist

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a cloud of geese erasing summer

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Marilyn Ashbaugh

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the slow turn

of an ice cream churn

swallows at sunset

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Brad Bennett

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honeycomb—

my late grandpa’s face

in the crowd

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Aidan Castle

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cicada husks

the final sweep

of summer

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Kim Klugh

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orange sunset 

following a different path

fritillary

 

Petro C.K

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Welsh malt whisky

how suddenly the sun

melts in the sea

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Keith Evetts

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equinox sunset

long shadows

of little stones

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Emma Alexander Arthur

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scattered asters                        

the remnants               

of a summer sky

 

Claire Ninham

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rising as one from bank 

to bough—

an impulse of sparrows

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Laurie Greer

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star-rise

an old man

prunes the roses

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Ryland Shengzhi Li

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september moon:
all I have
is what I miss

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Oscar Luparia

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alfresco dinner talking late into the light of fireflies

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Marcie Wessells

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at the docks

cranes play ball

with the moon

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Adrian Bouter

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slow shadows

a family of deer

graze twilight

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Erin Castaldi

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midnight moon

it’s face full

of sunlight

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Dan Salontai

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crescent moon guarding a star mother and pram

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Pepe Madera

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Being Autumn 

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dawn breaks my resolve

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Christopher See

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expanding universe... a dandelion bursts into seed 

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Jay Friedenberg

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puddles in the park 

dawn stars fill the space 

left by dusk

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Arvinder Kaur

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sunrise         

climbing from mist                                   

the sandstone gorge

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Gavin Austin

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scent of jasmine

this sunlight

in my future

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Agus Maulana Sunjaya

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searching

for a connection...

mycelium

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Carly Thorpe

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sea-born sunrise

skimming the lake

a grey heron

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Emma Alexander Arthur

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stripped of all

I once thought essential…

Euphorbia plants

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Pepe Madera

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in a line

of gnarled willows

one sapling

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Michael Baeyens

 

 

on the fence

in daylight a nighthawk

teetering

 

Dorothy Burrows

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lake’s mist 

unfolding my story 

the rorschach test 

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Hifsa Ashraf

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florist shop—

the indecision 

of the butterfly

 

Alaka Yeravadekar

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day moon

the long night

not long enough

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Alvin Cruz

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unable

to be unhappy

hollyhocks

 

Laurie Morrissey

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gust of wind . . .

landing in a hollow stump

an acorn

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Anthony Lusardi

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oleander blooms

like every dream of you

I can’t touch

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C.X Turner

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wings for a day my hands turn to mayflies

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Pippa Phillips

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one lily

to another

rumors of wind

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Brad Bennett

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alone  playing arpeggios into birdsong

 

Christine Eales

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circle of agave the green hummingbird’s voice

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Michael Battisto

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traveling. . .

on her own waves

an inchworm

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Marilyn Ashbaugh

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timing her entrance

for the fall—

brimstone moth

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Adele Evershed

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yellow butterfly without so much as a by your leave

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Patrick Sweeney

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fall chill …
still the spring
in my step

 

 S. Michael Kozubek

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atlas moth homily day moon

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Anna Cates

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Straw field

shadow of a starling

in the hawk's gaze

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Marilyn Ashbaugh

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trapped 

in winding gorges

brain fog

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Tom Staudt

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this guilt the wingspan of gannets

 

Aidan Castle

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Yoshino fog 

the cherry farmer’s wife 

sweeping blossoms 

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Chad Henry

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bend in the river—

I come across

a new flower

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Alaka Yeravadekar

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pulsar

the on-and-off

of a seagull’s wings

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Joshua St. Clare

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waking alone

the lark

fills in the blanks

 

Adele Evershed

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picture window...

refocusing the crow

becomes a moth

 

Quendryth Young

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beached whale

the extent 

of my shame

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John Pappas

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this struggle

to collect myself

wind blown leaves

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Bryan Rickert

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mallard…

his mate

a lone blue feather

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Laurie Greer

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deluge 

heather bruises                                                 

the moor 

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Claire Ninham

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their path

from glen to glen

moonlit deer

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Bryan Rickert

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cauliflower leaves     

my inner child

opens up

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Jennifer Hambrick

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rain stops play 

the shifting pitch

of a crow 

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Alan Peat

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heat lightning

the stillness

of trees

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Ben Gaa

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the slow cooking of stew quiet rain

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Mariangela Canzi

 

 

slight breeze

all that I am

for today

 

Jamie Wimberly

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extended road trip

our neighbor’s bike

becomes a trellis

 

Christine Wenk-Harrison

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deep autumn 

the parts of me

still green

 

Bryan Rickert

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woodsmoke curling up with a good book

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Kim Klugh

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abalone shells

nestle together      

neither whole 

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Jenny Fraser

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the desire to stay lost fireflies

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Alaka Yeravadekar

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autumn rain...

a drop sways 

the banana leaf

 

Neena Singh

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deadheading

the unwanted parts 

of me

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Lorelyn Arevalo

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a dead bird

suddenly holding

my hand

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Alan Peat

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community garden 

in the rain… 

one man turning soil

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Kerry J Heckman

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shady woodlands

a yellow lady slipper

bobs with rain

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Deborah Burke Henderson

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dawn light on bat wings my indecision

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Aidan Castle

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sundown -

searching for meanings

old cranes

 

Amoolya Kamalnath

 

autumn light

I follow a firetail

into the ruins

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Clive Bennett

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lightning—

briefly the frog's 

eyes

 

P.H Fischer

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autumn haze

father begs me

to take him home

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Mircea Moldovan

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faded coop

the broken hinge’s 

wind-song

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Erin Castaldi

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crickets chirping
a dark pond ripples
full of stars

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Daniel Daw

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two puddles

the half-moon

spoons itself

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Cody Huddleston

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nightfall --

among the rubble

a blackbird song

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Mariangela Canzi

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ripples

under the fisherman's hook

the hunter's moon

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Irena Szewczyk

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a sea of stars

imprinted

on each drop of rain

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Andrew Markowski

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buck moon…

beginning a new phase

antlers regrow

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Rob McKinnon

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the sound 

of his breath gasping

midnight rain

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Alvin Cruz

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moth wings 

opening and closing

the night

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John Hawkhead

 

 

Leaving Autumn

 

 

lone cloud birthing the day moon

 

Ravi Kiran

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leafless shadow the line between then and now dissolves into snow

 

Pippa Phillips

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shimmering pink

an earthworm

Unearthed

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Barrie Levine

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early snowfall ...

a stack of what-ifs

on my mind

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Chen-ou Liu

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stark telephone poles 

fronting a hallelujah 

of cumulonimbi 

Chad Henry

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salt marsh sunrise…

a herd of cows licking

the mist

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Dorothy Burrows

 

 

glimpsing

his other side

cherry blossoms

 

Richa Sharma

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thunderheads

the tractor turns back

into the field

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Dan Treagust

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soft snowdrifts

his shoulders round

into winter

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Lesley Swanson

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lightning--   

the crack and splinter

of a lace bark pine

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Laurie Greer

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autumn slacktide -

the beach's emptiness trails

onto snow crabs

 

Amoolya Kamalnath

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windfarms spinning daytime stars

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Christine Wenk-Harrison

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deep fog

a child’s finger breaks

the tide pool’s surface

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Mike White

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daydreaming the sky a pond of white goldfish

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Marcie Wessells

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reflection
in a dewdrop
my real size

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Oscar Luparia

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ruffled sky

a seagull feather

washes ashore  

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Mona Iordan

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sun catchers…

ripples of curlew

ebbing away

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Dorothy Burrows

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one door ajar two worlds

 

Mariangela Canzi

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all the colors 

of the sea 

the fishmonger’s eyes 

 

Eric Sundquist

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grandpa's allotment

a pumpkin

as big as his hug

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Ingrid Baluchi

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altocumuli

all sparrows fly

but one

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Kati Mohr

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Pictish stones touching time

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Tony Williams

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starling days

shaping our breath

into sky

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Joanna Ashwell

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first snow . . .

following the deer tracks

following the trail

 

Kristen Lindquist

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iced up pond

fish that swim

in the undercurrent

 

Bisshie

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still dripping with rain…  

a white oak

does the work of clouds

 

Laurie Greer

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elsewhere milkweed floss takes me

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Debbie Strange

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apples

on one side of the tree -

this war

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Maire Morrissey Cummins

 

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trying to see

your point of view

red deer skull

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Chris Dean

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not the wind through the pines 

but my mother's voice

in mine

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Deborah A. Bennett

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the low flight

of a white heron

receding waves

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Hifsa Ashraf

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snow capped mountains

the highs and lows of

distant memories

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Tom Staudt

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breaking news

crows creak in harmony

with the ice lake

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John Hawkhead

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cucurbit flute

the melody is all

dad remembers

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Debbie Strange

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snowy woods 

my breathing 

fills the silence

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Christopher Seep

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skimming

through fine mist--

stars of the charioteer

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Ruth Holzer

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night rain 

the emptiness 

of a rusted tin drum 

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Daipayan Nair

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moon

into the clouds ----

single again

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Manoj Sharma

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even when 

we are gone…

cherry blossoms

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Arvinder Kaur

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island cemetery

sunburst lichen

obscures a surname

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Brad Bennett

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almost hearing them

barn swallows migrating

across the moon

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Stuart Bartow

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rain puddle

holding the ripples 

in the moon

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Mona Bedi

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insomnia

watching the snow

turn blue

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John J. Han

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alone

in the shape of midnight

an owl

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Christine Eales

 

 

moon's pull…

I give the sea

my tired hands

 

 

Thomas Powell