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Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

Bliss

Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

David Alexander Walker

Bliss

shadows deepening
snow topped indigo mountains
flamingo pink skies
camped by a glacial lake
watching the end of the day
a single ****** swims past
its wake a thin silver line
then a loon calls from far off
and my heart disentangles
as the universe floods in
and washes away my pain
in a deep ocean of stars
bliss incandescent

Choka

Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

Death of a Plumber

Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

Pradip Chattopadhyay

Death of a Plumber

A few months I haven't called him

At the beck and call at any hour
And the shortest notice
A dial to him has saved many an emergency

Last night a broken female voice
On the other side of the wire
Mumbled he died on May 13

Left her with three daughters
At forty at short notice

The plumber is dead

Now who would clear
My choked wash basin

The plumber is dead
And I've no other number to call

I couldn't see her face
Gauge the faceless sorrow
At the other side of the wire

The plumber is dead

I must find another
And then rejoice
Forgetting the widow's choked voice

Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

Poets Mining

Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

nivek

Poets Mining

sometimes you have to go deeper
the seam you thought would never end, is gone, for now,
all mined out
and no one says that is going to be easy
set out you must all the same
and no one can tell you how deep your search will take you
just keep digging in your own unique way.

Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

Ant

Jun 2016 Kathryn Heim

David Alexander Walker

Ant

i thread the needle
an ant among fellow ants
on the hot pavement
between the glinting towers
traffic and voices collide
as the sun burns relentless
and green turns to red again
castaway on a curb now
i watch a crippled pigeon
tapping morse code as it limps
a jagged circle round me
the light turns to green and i
am an ant again

Choka