A Hundred Gourds

index

page 15

a bride at sixteen green apples

Lee Nash –France

rain wedding rain bells rain

Robert Epstein – USA

wedding day
rain washes the scarecrow's
old suit

Pris Campbell – USA

spring wind
the shirts outside
wave to me

Christof Blumentrath – Germany

cold snap aspens vertigoing nowhere

Rick Tarquinio – USA

bull kelp
sliding in and out of sight
a fur seal

Sandra Simpson – New Zealand

not knowing
the pond is old
tadpoles

Ryan Apple –USA

aerobics –
a bunch of new floaters
jumping around

Ruth Holzer – USA

emotional IQ
the octopus unravels
in front of me

Marianne Paul – Canada

crab-pocked sand
a tea tree leans
away from the river

Nathalie Buckland – Australia

a water snake weaving its way the spring

Padma Thampatty – USA

first fishing pole
the men
gather around

Dan Schwerin – USA

empty basket
each wavelet
the shape of a fish

Grace McKenna – Australia

the basil seedling
wilts and recovers –
Earth Day

Ruth Holzer – USA

in darkness
birds trill towards
what's still to come

Hansha Teki – New Zealand