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  • A.M. Art
    Poetry by Sam Barbee Midnight flurries wandered across the yard,dusted us with white blemishes—pristine,but too scant for loveliness. Blanchedbrushstrokes like… Read more: A.M. Art
  • Snowball Fight
    Poetry by Beate Sigriddaughter He, twenty, blond, blue-eyed, on a walking tour through Germany, earning some money helping out at… Read more: Snowball Fight
  • Winter Grief
    Poetry by Catherine Prentice In the cold, bleak midwinterCreeping mists descendedHolding her branches and twigsIn an ever tighter embraceRestless life… Read more: Winter Grief
  • Kinds of Snow
    Poetry by Ruth Zwald and suddenly you are back in your grandmother’s tiny kitchen / she warmsfresh milk / stirring… Read more: Kinds of Snow
  • Back Then
    Poetry by John Attanas Back thenafter January’s first wallopI would venture out,camera clutchedlike a family heirloom,to capture the drifts,the overwhelmed… Read more: Back Then
  • Bunny in Brown Bear’s Coat
    Poetry by Stephan Hermann I own a coatA big brown thingBought it off an old guyIn AugustA few years backWhen… Read more: Bunny in Brown Bear’s Coat
  • Snow
    Poetry by Aidan Russell While in the night we soundly slept,A winter storm came byand covered all the world in… Read more: Snow
  • Puck’s Paper
    Poetry by Sarah Das Gupta I scribble a note on a summer leafplucked from a beech or the bole of… Read more: Puck’s Paper
  • Darjeeling Tea
    Poetry by Shreya Datta If you like your pleasures subtle,and your caffeine lean,I present before youthe delights of Darjeeling. Not… Read more: Darjeeling Tea
  • New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day
    Poetry by Cecil Morris Last day, first day, side by side. Please, no.I’d like a break, a pause, a little… Read more: New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day
  • Infinity
    Poetry by Jeanine Stevens Here at the beginning of the year, dinner of broiled scallops,     Sonoma Valley wine. In… Read more: Infinity
  • Papa’s Garage
    Poetry by Sarah Pouliot I stood in your garage, inhaling sawdustlike incense as you unveiled the new altar:a dove and… Read more: Papa’s Garage
  • Putting Christmas Away
    Poetry by Lorraine Jeffery When we’re on the end of the bell curve,we’re slower to take the wreath off the… Read more: Putting Christmas Away
  • Retrieving the Mail in January
    Poetry by Perie Longo I wish the mailman Happy New Yearand tongue in cheek, he grins Merry Christmasand I say… Read more: Retrieving the Mail in January
  • Ushering in the New Year
    Poetry by Karen Carter Do ocean waves just appearor enjoy being seen? I want to see them.I need their balmlike… Read more: Ushering in the New Year
  • The Singing Lake
    Poetry by Sandra Hosking Sacheen Lake sings in winterThough its surface is stillIt sounds like a hammer on a metal… Read more: The Singing Lake
  • Winter Woes
    Poetry by Lani T It is very cold and wet.“I’m going to freeze!” I fret.The trek back to my car… Read more: Winter Woes

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