A Hundred Gourds

index

page 7

night fishing
shades of blue
seep through
the orbits

Jack Galmitz - U.S.A.

not quite dawn
an oystercatcher's call
opens the day

Katrina Shepherd - Scotland

child’s sand bucket
the blue-ringed octopus
flares yellow

Cynthia Rowe - Australia

sudden shadow the eyes of a soft-shell crab

Bill Cooper - U.S.A.

fading light …
with a single brushstroke
land becomes sea

Mark E. Brager - U.S.A.

mammals 'round
a jade pool
Triangulum Australe

Patrick Sweeney - Japan

opera in the park
Queen of the Night soars
with the fruit bats

Jan Dobb - Australia

cat stretching the smell of clean pyjamas

Maeve O'Sullivan - Ireland

dawn chorus
mosquitoes
collect the offering

Jeff Hoagland - U.S.A.

pedestrian lights
so slow
in this heat

Peter Macrow - Australia

heat
we talk a little slower
about nothing

Johannes S. H. Bjerg - Denmark

short-lived
shine of a melon seed
your words

Stella Pierides - Germany

the cat stretches the length of a summer day

Mark E. Brager - U.S.A.

heat rash
on the out of date ointment
my late father's name

Peter Macrow - Australia

setting sun
the long descent
of a raven's cry

Jan Dobb - Australia