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| Issue 29: | August 2025 |
| Micro-Poem: | 50 words |
By Lynne Schilling
The Parachutist
She fell out of love one spring afternoon, leaned over the edge of despair, & forgot to breathe. As she tumbled toward the ground, her body relaxed, she gulped the intoxicating air. When her parachute opened, she searched below, saw a bowl of sweet green grass in which to land.
Lynne Schilling
While Lynne Schilling has been writing poetry on and off for forty years, she began writing it seriously four years ago at age 75. Her day job was as an academic in an entirely different field. Her poems have been published in The Alchemy Spoon, The New Verse News, Quartet Journal, and Rue Scribe among others, and she has a poem forthcoming in Lucky Jefferson.
Author’s website: https://lynneschillingpoetry.com/
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