Terrestrial Ponds I dine on lake kale-emergent plants such as rushes, reeds, buggy whips & tule. I hide in the edges of sedges— bulrushes that mimic my roundness; the better to camouflage and hide inside; the better to ambush unsuspecting baby bass or walleye and ride the tide among the cattails and marsh […]
Broadway Avenue Panhandler Misery gazed through beer-stained blur, Despair in faded jeans; enslaved by his habit, his outstretched claw beseeched me donate to his cause. A ghost begged another ride on his addiction. His wretchedness reached out and slapped me lonely; the squalid secrets of his torment displayed like a porno movie. An apparition of
Evening Approaches By Annette Gagliardi Grey-brown creeps over the horizon on its way to sundown, shading the bridges and ridges of trees, hills and buildings as it gathers the troops of night for a full-scale assault on the brightness of day, offering another brand of illumination that supplies shadow by the bucketful, adds nuances to
