scattered dandelion we age into wishes we’d forgotten
- Pris Campbell, USA
weeds growing in ways I never meant to
- Ruchita Madhok, India
on the periphery of oblivion brahma kamal
- Shloka Shankar, India
all that’s left of me cattail fluff
- Sandi Pray, USA
her hands folding the cold rhododendron leaves
- Joshua St. Claire, USA
the final illness daffodils yet to bloom
- Tim Gardiner, UK
ICU the hawk losing camouflage
- Susan Burch, USA
her last days sipping the iris twilight
- Kathryn Liebowitz, USA
kingfisher i open the urn
- Aidan Castle, USA
her scattered ashes shimmer of mayflies
- Eric Sundquist, USA