FROST.....NEWSLINE

----------All Aboard the 2018   All-Literation Quatro-Quatrain!!-----
Four Four-liners to add rich images to this lush Summer...

And don't forget...the last Frost Hoot til September is tomorrow,
Tuesday, June 12th, 7pm, at Cafe Azteca: Lawrence High, the Quatrain, Open Mic.


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2018  All-Literation Quatro-Quatrain

No binoculars needed to trace
diaphanous spider’s silk from the
hummingbird feeder around starburst clematis
transparently bonding as your heart to mine
                                                                                  ("Optics",  Gayle C. Heney)
Without you, the bumblebee sputters over to the rhododendron,
Saturn slings in its orbit, and morning glories blink purple at twilight.
So rest here awhile, make a pillow from your jacket­,
Lean into the cool grass waiting to hold you.
                                                                                ("Nature Quatrain"~Linda Flaherty Haltmaier)
Balmy breezes breathe upon brazen beach.
as harried herons harpoon hapless seas.
Goosenecked grazing on verdant frogs, they breach.
Perched with no egrets in life up to knees.                 
                                                                                ("Summer Quatrain"---Steven Sohigian)
Even the unbending
mountains occasionally
cast their shadows
on clouds.                                                                (UNTITLED,  Pilar Quintana)



Contributers/Awardees will each receive a carefully restored pair of
  mid-20th Century binoculars, from a time of unusual optical talent,
   with crisp, colorful, lush views on
      this with crisp, colorful, lush Summer...

I can't stop smiling.

--JK