To Breathe
O silver platter moon,
do you see the blue clouds?
They enter my lungs and force the air out;
the bottled oxygen doesn't help
O eye witness, what else is there to say?
--Sulakshana Guha
don't tell the scarecrow
someone is stealing the beans
--Yayū
receding patter
of trembling raindrops
cancer whispers spread
--Douglas J. Lanzo
of trembling raindrops
cancer whispers spread
--Douglas J. Lanzo
hospice-
how many autumn moon
still I have
--Ram Chandran
gathering storm
the air in the waiting room
heavy with silence
--Chen-ou Liu
harvest moon
stuffing a body
with plastic bags
--Mariel Herbert
stuffing a body
with plastic bags
--Mariel Herbert
moldy oranges
scattered on the ground
the smell of rot
--Eavonka Ettinger
sickling moon
hollowed out in daily scoops
now the lightness of being
--Dr. Vaishnavi Pusapati
the constancy
of weeping wisteria
- blue moon
--Katherine E. Winnick
sentient death poem
writing itself
cranberry moon
--Jerome Berglund
autumn moon
nothing but the sound of leaves
falling
--Mark Scott
with no moon
i tell the fallen moon
of autumn tears
--James Young
virtual funeral
the autumn moon
watching through my window
--Adele Evershed
in silent midnight
our old scarecrow topples over
weird hollow echo
--Boncho
