Maureen Egan
flow

breathe in
the blue liquid
confluence of heaven
same sky, common earth, shared shores - one
ocean

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Linda Lee Crosfield
Throat

you thought
to close mid-sip
to change your mind, mid-gulp
you learn too late what slakes can scald,
can drown

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Gillian Russell
Shiva

downpour
as nails of rain
pierce tatters of flowers
lobelia a spider sprawl
on earth.

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Barbara Pelman
No More Coffee

Drink hot
water, lemon
in a twist-Chinese cure
for boredom: everything seems good
after.

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Tina Biello
Path

Cherry
blossoms weep pink.
Light the stone walkway home.
After first Spring rain, our feet carve
a trail.

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Mavis Jones
Lake

Frozen
Ice lilies curl
On surfaces inscribed
By skate blades..a kind of winter
Haiku

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Barbara Wild
the beginning of rain

listen
that first thin pulse
droplets on rock, on leaf
spare music heard without knowing
going

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Madeleine Nattrass
Black Gold

Off-shore
Oil spoils the sea
Catastrophic, unless
Mother Earth sees fit to forgive
Again.

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Morgan Townsend
Callas

Rain clouds
boiling, burst like
pregnant dandelions.
Black clothes toss lilies like drops of
water.

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Sidney Bending
Reflecting

This pond
reflects blossoms -
here red camellias,
in this light, double the number
of koi.

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Gabriel Dey
Clouds Decipher the Anthology of Water

Bodies
Two hearts tangling
Mountain and a dark lake
A breathing sky- disappearing
Darkness.

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Frances Schiavina
Winter

Raindrops
Crying on glass
Lamenting fading light
Ushering in winter of long
dark nights.

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Lee Beavington
Rain

Sky flood
Dew stars, grass pearls
Whitecaps to clear current
Friend to fish, folly for fire
Cloud child

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T.M. Göttl
46

Rivers
carry lilies,
like our unlit candles
and so many cups of tea, now
missing.

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Amy Ainbinder
Silent Spring

Water
Rachel Carson ---
a difficult journey
Beethoven's dream-filled concertos
Silence

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dan smith
We Thirst

We can
walk on water
now, in bloody sandals,
cancerous monks in oily rags,
we thirst.

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Andrea Da Costa
Poolside

Sparkling
veins of sunlight
ripple with the water -
feet kicking lazily I watch
them dance.

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J.E. Stanley
Vapor Cloud

Centaur
strikes the shadowed
surface of Cabeus.
The moon's deepest secret revealed:
water.

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Marina Blokker
Stikine

River
skims over rock
rough in tangled forest,
growls in roar of wash, a wild spear
released.