On the Wing

foam-frosted waves
a white gull
spirals higher

Lisa Billa
San Jose, California, USA

blue moon...
the long necked swan
glides through reeds

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three geese skim the horizon setting sun

Katherine E Winnick
Brighton, United Kingdom
linktree/katherineewinnick

lavender dusk
watchers migrate to see
Purple Martins

Claire Vogel Camargo
Austin, Texas, USA

evening song
through my window
the blackbird

Fatma Zohra Habis
Algiers/Algeria
Website/social media

Editor Bio: Caroline Wermuth coordinated the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry, the Public Poetry Project, and the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Penn State Libraries. Her poems have appeared in Northern Appalachia Review, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, World Haiku Review, Haiku Girl Summer and in the New Jersey Botanical Gardens (NJBG).

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Merch

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