Dana Henry Martin – Write This (Death is blood seeping …)
Write This (Death is blood seeping …) — after Michael Palmer Write this. Death is blood seeping through a stoma, pooling in a colostomy bag. It’s no food and no water, cancer’s game of coconut shells. Under the first shell, starvation. Under the second, asphyxiation. Under the third, exsanguination. Death is years or months or […]
Francine Witte’s Some Distant Pin of Light, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Francine Witte Some Distant Pin of Light Červená Barva Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Francine Witte’s Some Distant Pin of Light demands recursive reading, as later poems call back earlier ones and recurring elements reveal its full range. That range encompasses a vast scope of time, from Eden to post-apocalypse, and space, from the internal […]
Amanda J. Bradley – Rehab Homework #3: Vulnerability
Rehab Homework #3: Vulnerability I did not want to be a fuzzy dandelion waiting for a child to blow my seedlings free, make a wish. I wanted to be the wish granter. I did not want to be an open eye, an open wound. I wanted to be the eyelid, the doctor. I did not […]
Sally Ashton – Pastoral
Pastoral I feel the grass call its reedy voice thin as wind swales green gold fold the hills lovers arms at peace a place inside where old loves walk with me forever it is the grass I will miss on the moon Sally Ashton, editor of DMQ Review, is the author […]
Erica Goss’s Landscape with Womb and Paradox, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Erica Goss Landscape with Womb and Paradox Broadstone Books Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu Erica Goss has spent decades honing her craft, and her new book, Landscape with Womb and Paradox, is a deft and perceptive gallery of landscapes, portraits, and vignettes that explore environmental and familial influences. The collection, long-awaited by those familiar with the poet, […]
