Poetry

"...messengers of another realm..."

"...Open roads call to me..."

"...his London wakes up from a nap and sees him..."

"Gathering bits and pieces like a bird, weaving a home..."

"...her harmonies breezed ease into the broken hearts..."

"...Their rich robes sparkled with gold..."

Kimutai Kemboi Allan is a Kenyan writer residing in Nairobi.

"...right next to the singed words of the past and of the future..."

Hossein Hakim was born in Tehran, Iran. He came to the United States in 1976 for his graduate studies in electrical engineering and received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1982. He was a professor of electrical engineering for 38 years and retired in 2020.

"...cruising through the lost streets of Silverlake ..."

David Crann and family took up permanent residence in Provence, France in 1990. His interests include family, travel, poetry, music, bridge and gardening.

"...the creatures from the earth’s core..."

"...red-bellied woodpecker..."

River and companion...

"...Grandma and Grandpa and Auntie and Uncle gathered around..."

"children making sand castles..."

"...At night, our backyard became the domain of trolls..."

Ali Ashhar is a poet, short story writer and columnist from Jaunpur, India.

"...a murmuration of starlings blooms..."

"...this whole new      vocabulary of tastes..."

"...We made our decisions...."

Images of people who worked together in an office...

"...it was the brightness of the red that won me over..."

"...When I thought of how much time we spent together..."

"...more tax dollars to pollute..."

"...Give back to me the memory of love..."

"...corrugated cardboard and lice-infested blankets my only defense..."

"...Those jokers in university housing must have had a hoot..."

"...I tell you, the last weeks have been rough..."

"...you ignored the ignition our breath issued..."