Flowers Strung by Jeff Flesch

There is a way pain feels deep in my bones a notion of the past and of a present yet to be fully manifest deep aches rejuvenated by a skyline left leaking along a horizon melting love into plants and flowers strung together like a bow tried, and true a manifestation too of you who…

Hana no Niwa by Michael L. Utley

In the restless nights In the small flower garden Spider lilies weep Mournful beneath midnight moon Dreaming higanbana dreams They cry in silence Do they know for whom they grieve Do they remember It was you who planted them It was you who gave them life They are not alone In the soil of memories…

Blue Notes by Joni Caggiano

hearts melting red trickling down hardwoods solitary trumpet blowing blue notes calling dolefully floating through my window, I ensue a corner that may hold a shadow laugh of you cigar smoke lingers in stale air by our old bar trumpet tears create a puddle outside the door cobblestones hold echoes of honest laughter your voice,…