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The Calm Before

Poetry by Nicole Hirt

fog hovers
over Colorado peaks
sculpted with snow
and flecked with pines

Run, run, run.

snowflakes trickle
from a grey sky
tickling my eyelashes
with white kisses

Run, run, run.

cold burns
my feet as they race
through mounds of powder
soft and wet

the alarm blinks on my phone:
“A blizzard is coming. Please find shelter.”

Run, run, run.


Nicole Hirt is a freelance writer based in South Florida. She is an editor at Living Waters Review, where several of her poems and prose have appeared in past issues. In her free time, she enjoys wandering through cemeteries, much to the confusion of the general public.

Late Aspen

Poetry by Burt Rashbaum

The aspen whispering,
color of late afternoon sun,
deepening in shadow
and the breeze’s
sibilance,
fading gold
washing bliss
upon us,
slowly coming
to sleep, to shed
their currency,
no urgency,
no memory
of spring.


Burt Rashbaum’s publications are Of the Carousel (The Poet’s Press, 2019), and Blue Pedals (Editura Pim, 2015, Bucharest). His poems have appeared in The Antonym, The Seventh Quarry, Storms of the Inland Sea (Shanti Arts Press, 2022), Boats Against the Current, The Ravens Perch, and Valiant Scribe.

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