INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Lana Bella
Deji W. Adesoye
Chris Lord
Ali Znaidi
Francis Annagu
Olajide Vincent Ajise
Lyn Lifshin
Akor Emmanuel
Duane Locke
Running Cub
Paul B. Roth
Fahredin Shehu
Laszlo Slomovits
Silvia Scheibli
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Amit Parmessur
Irsa Ruci
Elisavietta Ritchie
Alex Ferde
Richard Gartee
Robert Nisbet
Alan Britt
Changming Yuan
Nahshon Cook
Peycho Kanev
Jennifer Burd
Fred Wolven
Karyn M. Bruce

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--editor / Southeastern Florida
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RIM OF FIRE VOLCANO

Ash & rocks
lava rings among opaline weeds
on mango & saffron church walls
on lilac painted houses & peach
cantera fountains

In cumbia plazas
history is recorded with ceramics,
penas of agave azul &
Mayan designs of feathered serpents

Ancestors speak in mathematical symbols
of water still flowing
in corn fields
after thousands of years

BROWN PELICAN

I feel the brown pelican’s shadow
cross my arm &
my arm’s shadow

Like
the echo in sea water
spilling its salty mane
on opal sand

CABO STILL LIFE

Bronze godess
in oceanic dress

arms a straw basket
filled with
tangerine light
ablaze with chatter
of spiny cactus wrens

opens
snowy balcony curtains
like vermilion ocotillos
after a storm

                 Nueva Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico

Silvia Scheibli, Rico Rico, Arizona