A Hundred Gourds

index

page 7

summer heat
the croaking of frogs
lures the clouds

Diana Petkova – Bulgaria

slow steam rising
this quiet conversation
between asphalt and rain

Kathryn Ross –Australia

steaming rain –
smell of apple pie
flooding the street

Lavana Kray – Romania

three days of rain
watching
lichen grow

Steve Kuntz – USA

rainstorm the toddler beats the drums

Kat Lehmann – USA

empty pasture...
the rains fill up
the hoofmarks

Vidya S Venkatramani – India

ceaseless rain
i thrash the seeds out
of a pomegranate

Polona Oblak – Slovenia

apple of discord
in the fruit basket
a worm

Gergana Yaninska – Bulgaria

horizontal sun
even the fabric rose
is glowing

Rose Ades –UK

the instant a fading cloud isn’t

Jan Dobb –Australia

Grand Canyon
a bluebird
on the rental's aerial

John Kinory – England

crow flight –
our lives briefly
intersect

Jacqueline Pearce – Canada

sunlit pond
the cattails
chirping

Annette Makino – USA

setting sun …
a bird dog's bark
empties the cattails

Chad Lee Robinson –USA

around we go
down the lighthouse stairs …
summer's end

Michael Dylan Welch – USA