A Sample from the Editor, A.J. Huffman

Bleached [F]Right

Three stark featherlings

                                        fall like snow

                                                                drops

of down along a branch’s widowed edge . . .

Their silent mobility speaks:  volumes

of calculated caution.  Grown on a wind

‘s wing, the triad clicks.  Harmonizing

eye over beak.  Learning the burn

[ed language] of synchronicity.

                                                     Flutter . . . Glide . . .

                                                     Flutter . . . Glide . . .

A twisted shuffle stutters: s s s s s s s south

for (safety? and) solace beyond the basic

tickle of ‘flauge . . .

Understanding is reached.  Destination

disbands.  Solidarity hangs:  home-

less as a tree.

A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida.  She has previously published four collections of poetry: The Difference Between Shadows and Stars, Carrying Yesterday, Cognitive Distortion, and . . . And Other Such Nonsense.  She has also published her work in national and international literary journals such as Avon Literary Intelligencer, Writer's Gazette, and The Penwood Review.  Find more about A.J. Huffman, including additional information and links to her work at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000191382454 and https://twitter.com/#!/poetess222.