a straggler
on the winding path...
wild honeysuckle

Claire Everett - UK

tagging along  the   slow   procession    of     clouds

Peter Newton – USA

slow stream
a heron stretches his beak
towards the sky

Stella Pierides - Germany

summer heat:
in my garden
only cicadas

Gary Couchman - Australia

cicadas
shooting holes
in the clouds

Owen Bullock - New Zealand

heat wave
the blinds
become bars

Stanley Siceloff - USA

crab-grass –
her dementia
deepens

Joanna M. Weston - Canada

neighbours' gossip
spitting a cherry pit
as far as i can

Polona Oblak - Slovenia

the silence
heat weights the air
then crickets

T.D. Ingram - USA

summer solstice
not enough songs
to fill the silence

Aubrie Cox - USA

dripping tap –
a second shadow falls
without sound

Rodney Williams - Australia

soft rain
how benevolence
works

Stella Pierides - Germany

all day rain the cricket's liquid chirp

Mark E. Brager - USA

summer night
on the baseball fence
a blue jay stretches his neck

Tzetzka Ilieva - USA

waiting for dawn –
hundreds of sunflowers
face east

Nancy Nitrio - USA