A Hundred Gourds

index

page 10

one grain falls
from the ear of wheat –
a bird in the sky

- in memoriam Hortensia Anderson

‘Omilla’ - Bulgaria

vesper bells ringing –
the raw awns
of rye

Helga Stania - Switzerland

gathering storm
a trickle of sweat
down the reaper’s spine

Ernest Wit - Poland

rainbow the reaper's steady eye

Helga Stania - Switzerland

hot autumn night
a possum swinging
in the almond tree

Cynthia Rowe - Australia

autumn in Kansas
only chaff and cicadas
rise with the wind

Francis Masat - U.S.A.

even one’s rivals
prove short-lived …
autumn’s cicada

Jeffrey Woodward - U.S.A.

reminding me
this too shall pass
morning glories

Marian Olson - U.S.A.

autumn dawn
as he gargles
the song of a magpie

André Surridge - New Zealand

threatening skies
in the field I pass
a clay pigeon

Stanley Siceloff - U.S.A.

gunpowder the universe mostly dark matter

Aubrie Cox - U.S.A .

along the short cut
cars slow to catch
a glimpse of deer

Robert Epstein - U.S.A.

school shooting
the principal remembers
how to pray

Seánan Forbes - U.K.

toadstools
the poison that drips
from your tongue

Tracy Davidson - U.K.

opening the window
to a moth and what's left
of the moon

Sanjukta Asopa - India