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Desire Path
Sometimes, it is just a question
of getting where we know
the path will lead, but slowly.

Editorial Staff
Jul 14, 20251 min read


Emerging
A bee finds the lone flower
in a field of weeds,
a patch of sunlight slants
its way into the deep forest
and a cellist’s bow finds
exactly the right note.

Editorial Staff
Jul 7, 20251 min read


Litany
In the sins of my youth three patterns emerge

Editorial Staff
Jun 2, 20251 min read


Wave
you will change
every day –

Editorial Staff
May 23, 20251 min read


Middle Marriage
Time splices our years together
in quirky remix

Editorial Staff
May 12, 20251 min read


Spiritus Sanctus
She was
young, strong, undone.
I could just imagine how you tipped
your glasses to each other

Editorial Staff
May 9, 20251 min read


Eagle's Flight
by Kenneth Reimer Eagle’s flight at dawn – the sleepy boat shakes droplets of night from its sails. Kenneth D. Reimer lives on the...

Editorial Staff
May 6, 20251 min read


Have You Ever Noticed with Spring
this sudden burst of life,
verdant and alive,
as if unable to wait
the celebration

Editorial Staff
Apr 22, 20251 min read


Vancouver Night
Dusk on the Island
and I look east to the mainland coast.

Editorial Staff
Apr 15, 20251 min read


A Prayer for More
Your hands, the rough and calloused ones that worked
great wonders feeding thousands, healing blind
and palsied poor.

Editorial Staff
Apr 8, 20251 min read


Water and Sky
Spinning Earth and Moon
shift us from light to shadow
and pull the swollen water
back high onto the shores
of Western Bay.

Editorial Staff
Mar 27, 20251 min read


Hunger
Morning swells like a leaven
as I follow my hunger

Editorial Staff
Dec 9, 20241 min read


Clouds
The mist of morning shreds in streams
Revealing hints of sky...

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Sep 2, 20241 min read


Red rock, rhyolite,
I can hold it, cup its six pounds in my hands, feel its rough, hard mass and trace the hewn path

Editorial Staff
Aug 29, 20242 min read


The Fruit Market
your plum-rounded
face and your plum-
darkened pupils, soft

Editorial Staff
Jul 17, 20241 min read


Midsummer Sketch in Pastels
The midsummer dawn has barely opened its dreamy eyes. One river flows peacefully between reed and pebble under the weight of a blanket...

Editorial Staff
Jun 24, 20241 min read


As always, begin again…
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;

Editorial Staff
May 26, 20242 min read


Selah
By Birdie Marie Rodriguez She sailed away on the feathers of a heavenly thing that broke me. Selah. There is a wonder in the sorrow of...

Editorial Staff
Dec 10, 20231 min read


Carolina Wren
By Ahrend Torrey Had you slept-in this quiet Monday, you wouldn’t have heard it. Had you gone to the grocery, you wouldn’t...

Editorial Staff
Sep 13, 20231 min read


Internal Medicine
By Lynn Glicklich Cohen A doctor’s waiting room—where everyone who came in after you is called first—is a fine place to inspect the...

Editorial Staff
Mar 5, 20231 min read
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