OUTSIDE THE SNOW - to be published in Toasts: Graces and Blessings

My poem Outside the Snow will be published in Toasts: Graces and Blessings Fall 2014, Viva Editions, http://www.vivaeditions.com/

HONORABLE MENTIONS PUBLISHED IN JOURNEYS VI

 My short stories The Wedding Reception and Not Suitable Viewing For Children have won honorable mentions and are published in Journeys VI, an anthology of award-winning short stories. Court Jester Publications Lady Lake, Florida

NOVEMBER - a poem by Patricia Crandall

 NOVEMBER

The air

is pungent with decay.

Old bones

push out of earth

beneath

curled leaves.

Blackness

descends and hovers,

with it comes

a chill.

HALLOWEEN TOMBSTONES a Poem

HALLOWEEN 

Tombstones

like spiky teeth,

Skeleton bones

rattle beneath.

A black cat stretches

across Willa Witch's hearth

where skulls are brewed

and crossbones stewed

by this Uzbekistan,

wart nosed sorceress!

FIRST PLACE WINNER

"It All Adds Up!" won First Place Award in May/June 2013 Northern Stars Magazine contest. 

SEPTEMBER PASSES a poem

 SEPTEMBER PASSES

 

On the patio, new foliage

pushes through remnants

of Autumn leaves.

The brick path

is mottled and scarred

with wet pine needles

and acorn caps.

Cobwebs are whisked off

white wicker. The far-away

sun shines cold.

In layered clothing,

I sip herbal tea.

FOREVER YOUNG - AUGUST POEM

 

                         Forever young

among the young

presents a two-faced mask.

My arms so ache,

my legs forsake me

in this hopeless task.

 Forever young

among the young

I'm whipped

before I ask,

a tender pup

to please ease up

in games

out of my past.

 Forever young

among the young

I persevere alas.

Yet my years, threescore

are hereto more

reality at last!