Four and Twenty

Spring Song

Blue blue blue over everything
and what branches attach to it?

Branches that divide its brightness,
still unattached to names.

Michael Jones

Michael Jones teaches at Oakland High School in Oakland, CA. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

Arcing the glade a hummingbird plunges
and arrives
precisely at its flower….

Mark Kaplon

Mark Kaplon is a taro farmer on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.

Planting Trees at Rowena Wilds

More deer trails than roads,
Where oaks crawl into clouds,
A baby ponderosa witnesses me
Digging its only home.

Michael Aspros

Mike Aspros lives on the edge of Forest Park. His poetry has appeared in Audubon’s The Warbler, Columbia Land Trust’s quarterly newsletter, Trust Talk, and forthcoming in The Grove Review and Fault Lines Poetry.

Caprice

Wind scampers across the porch
and shakes bright ivy.
Open the door and unwrap
the bright face of morning.

Jean McLeod

Jean McLeod is the author of Poems for Women Who Think They Hate Poetry. Her poems have appeared in vox poetica, Greensilk Journal, Red River Review, Golden Sparrow Review, Leaf Garden, Forces Poetry, and others.