Volume XXVIII, Number 3: September 2026
;Haiku — page 8
behind my neglect a row of hollyhocks
Julie Ann Espinoza
Los Angeles, California
flower gardening—
a perennial excuse
for no dinner
Kathleen McAllen
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
nightfall—
a florist locks up
the tiger lilies
Patricia J. Machmiller
San Jose, California
try this sky on for size red-winged blackbird
Cherie Hunter Day
Auburn, New Hampshire
summer heat
we lose our shadows
beneath the tree
Royal Baysinger
Montreal, Quebec, Canada