INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Amit Parmessur
Elisavietta Ritchie
Donal Mahoney
Fahredin Shehu
Richard Kostelanetz
Alex Ferde
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Duane Locke
Chris Lord
Nahshon Cook
Al Ortelani
Shutta Crum
Ajibola Tolase
Silvia Scheibli
Laszlo Slomovits
Emmanuel Samson
Lyn Lifshin
Running Cub
Nikita Parik
Alan Britt
John Grey
Bhisma Upreti
Paul B. Roth
Jennifer Burd
Sunday Michael
Michael H. Brownstein
Burd
Ali Znaidi
Richard Gartee
Kanev Peycho
Fred Wolven
Petraq Risto
Carolyn Elias
Alabi Oyedeji
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Francis Ferde
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--editor / Southeastern Florida
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SUNFLOWERS
No one has to teach a field
of sunflowers how to worship.
Before dawn in high summer
their necks are bent
in silent prayer like monks.
But as the sun comes up
sunflowers rise as well.
At noon they adore the sun
the way monks in pews
adore the Host at elevation.
Listen and you may hear
sunflowers sing Alleluia!
PETALS DRIFT
Last week Opal
learned
she has cancer
might live six months
even though she's busy
quilting
with other
widows at church
gardening
every day
pleased with her roses.
"I'm 80, Betty,
That's old enough"
Opal tells her
neighbor
over the fence
as she walks
in her garden
waters some roses
not as warm now
autumn is
here
petals drift
in the
breeze,
an early snow.
Donal Mahoney, St. Louis, Missouri