SEQUESTRATED POEM

by J.R. Solonche

No matter the cost or severity,
we poets adjust for aust . . .


J.R. Solonche is co-author (with wife Joan Siegel) of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). His poems have appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies since the 1970s. He teaches at SUNY Orange in Middletown, New York.

FUNDING FLUCTUATIONS IN THE TIME OF CROCI

by Tricia Knoll

Open Crocus (D.Salk)

Copyright © 2013 Darrell Salk

darrell-salk@tearbow.com

spring's gold cup
opens to a downpour
sequestration

heavy-lidded crocus
stars of cooling night --
closing loopholes


Tricia Knoll is a Portland, Oregon poet and Master Gardener with a fondness for haiku. Her husband Darrell Salk took the photo of the open crocus.