children laugh
unafraid of the past
in the summer grass

(Keiji Minato)





a ladybug of leisure
wanders upside-down

(Fleur)





on a city tram
opening to Han Shan's
distances

(Lorin Ford)





cold mountain range
plays hidden music

(Joseph Mueller)





hunting truffles
the sow
cannot help herself

(Ashley Capes)





the streets are empty now
rumble of a tank

(Greg Rochlin)





after the lightning strike
a ti-tree blooms
in halves

(Rhonda Poholke)





a divorced mother
bungee jumps

(Aldia)





tattooed
on the back of her neck
a howling Jesus

(David G. Lanoue)





a cardboard alphabet
tacked to backyard trees

(Joseph Mueller)





our renga booklet-
the wind turns leaf after leaf
and the moon reads it

(Vasile Moldovan)





the players rehearse
on Prospero's isle

(Lorin Ford)





after midnight
it all goes
topsy-turvy

(Genevieve Osborne)





youtube koalas
munch on pixel gum leaves

(David Prater)





cross-species kindness -
a fireman offers
his water bottle

(Anne Elvey)





morning meditation
a crow disrupts my shadow

(Graham Nunn)





garden lilac
unfurling at the tempo
of its fragrance

(Origa)





our postman arrives -
pitter-patter tin drum

 (Michael Roper)

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