Pamela Wax – A Prayer of Jerusalem for Yehuda Amichai
A Prayer of Jerusalem for Yehuda Amichai Hope is a memory of the future. —Gabriel Marcel On full moon midnights I meet the dead poet at David’s Gate. His satchel bulges with leather-skinned pomegranates bleeding juice. The tourists, there to walk the ramparts, look past him to the tower. I am not […]
Carolyn Oliver – Three Highways
Three Highways Dusk: two boys single file carry themselves, their arms crescent moons under trees humbled by moths’ winter webs. Bulbous, tumbling out of the rockface, ambuscades of ice. —— Half-broken house lists into another spent field. Geese battalions muster over the marsh. Beyond the reeds an islet of ice, eyeful of a piano webbed […]
