Bette J. Lafferty Tampa Branch, Florida   It has been years since we first came to this little park, where young saplings with limbs so strong reached to the heavens ... Read more

  Grady Sue Loftin Saxon Alabama Birmingham Branch   I looked up just as she slipped through the open doorway of the hospital waiting room that was filled with my ... Read more

Kim Beardsley-Garrison Palm Springs  Branch The naked eye chooses to believe What the mind chooses to ignore. Pretend smiles and positive words Proclaim a happy mood, But not all bruises ... Read more

  Fern Overvold Atlanta Branch   Tall and slender the sea oats bow to one another without breaking. Something in their sandy shoes allows them to tilt from their toes, ... Read more

  Carolyn AuneMinnesota Branch     Ah, the late January malaise. How about a rip-roaring blizzard To break the monotony! How about a blizzard so grand and fierce That it ... Read more

By Karen McAferty Morris, Poetry Editor I’ve been poetry editor since November 2018, and I love to open my email and see poetry submissions. If you’ve been thinking of submitting ... Read more

Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch, California   I just read that the African spiny mouse has the thinnest skin in the world. That’s interesting. I thought I did. And ... Read more

Dorothy KammVero Beach, Florida     Most mornings I pray when I drink coffee but today I’m watching seven grackles at the edge of a neighbor’s roof puff up their ... Read more

Anne Bonner Cape Canaveral Branch as the old lady stares into space slender twig bent and broken I remember Mama a beautiful young blossom role model in days past admonishing ... Read more

Val Weaver Des Moines Branch, Iowa Pictures of me… taken in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s show me always with a cigarette in my hand held between the fore and middle ... Read more