A Hundred Gourds

index

page 11

off-season beach
a bartender juggling
seagulls' cries

Alexey Andreev – Russia

plover beach
I take off
my five-toed socks

Fay Aoyagi – USA

white caps –
seaweed on the beach
clutching stones

Ruby Michael – Australia

deserted beach
footprints run slowly down
the slip face of a dune

Richard Tindall - UK

my dead brother …
an echo of light
blurs the polaroid

Chad Lee Robinson – USA

the sound of a nail
driven through the wind –
standing stone

Richard Tindall - UK

frankincense finally sinking in the funeral mass

Matthew Robinson –USA

your last wishes misty reservoir

Cynthia Rowe – Australia

memorial tree
the first shovelful
the heaviest

Rose van Son – Australia

his wardrobe door
still shut
the familiar scent of grief

Grace Mckenna – Australia

moss-covered graves
only crows speak with
my ancestors

Barbara A. Taylor – Australia

twilight chill
graveyard shadows surrender
stone by stone

Rachel Sutcliffe – UK

fading fog
in the coppice
more and more birches

Magdalena Banaszkiewicz – Poland

maple leaf in autumn –
the fortune teller tells me
my lifeline is clear

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara – Romania

children’s voices –
a falling leaf reaches
its shadow

Nathalie Buckland – Australia