Year: 2020

By Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski
Late one covid afternoon while lead-bellied clouds cast gloom across my room I saw the oddest thing…

By Sheilah Land
I am four years old and technically an adult feline, but because of my size, most people think…

By Sheilah Land
If you had asked four months ago if I would ever miss going to the gym, I’d have laughed…

By E.A. Briginshaw
This is the story of Frank and Katy who first cross paths during a traumatic event…

By Joanell Clarke
Why does everything have to be a “fight”? It is so adversarial and only creates…

By Christina Bome
Another day in my sequestered solitude.
The kettle wails like children at play, ‘My turn! My turn!’…

By Christina Bome
Today I am making my plants comfortable.
Like a stamp collector forever mounting the same stamps…

By Dorothy Isted
Eight little limbs lightly lumbering in the dawn
Racing pacing facing feline song…

By Brenda Kilberg
Now it’s garden seeds
All the seed houses are clogged with orders…

By Brenda Kilberg
There is always people who will try to
Limit…

By Brenda Kilberg
I made a run to the hardware store today
It’s about as busy in town as it usually is…

By Brenda Kilberg
There was a rain last night
And…

By Beverly Reese
It was the big year, the 79’er year. The invitations were just about to be sent…

By Anne DeNada
There are many, sighs, sounds, and senses of love
Movements, motions, and might of love…

By Kay Johnston
Coyote! Coyote!
Trickster! Joker! …

By Kay Johnston
We bury our pain within our bodies,
Like shrapnel…

By Kay Johnston
I feel as though I have been here
For ever…

By Kay Johnston
To be here alone, in the depth of day,
Is for me a time of peace…