Jeannine Hall Gailey – Revontulet
Revontulet Revontulet is the Finnish word for “Foxfire,” also for the Northern Lights The night we saw the Northern Lights here in Seattle, it was raining iguanas in Florida, snowing in Mobile. So, why not, the tails of spirit foxes, as the Finnish believed, calling the aurora “foxfire.” My ancestors, Appalachians in the Smoky Mountains, […]
Christopher Shipman’s Mortar, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Christopher Shipman Mortar Brick Road Poetry Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli In Mortar’s concluding poem, “Epigenetics,” Christopher Shipman writes, “Evidence suggests telling the story / of trauma can create / new trauma – even if the trauma / or its story is not your own.” Throughout the collection, the primary speaker does indeed explore family trauma, […]
George Franklin’s A Man Made of Stories, Reviewed by Robert Fillman
George Franklin A Man Made of Stories Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Reviewer: Robert Fillman Poetry, when it’s honest, doesn’t hide behind artifice or form. It walks beside you like an old friend. It speaks softly, coming in close to level with you, especially at times when you’d rather not hear what it has to say. That’s what […]
Marilyn A. Johnson – To Rest Here
To Rest Here in the museum of my children smooth the comforter curl up and be the child adhesive streaks on the ceiling the last of the glow-in-the- dark planets I rest between the old globe and the stuffed closet the hoard of their natural history tiny sweaters with buttons of bone primitive sculptures I […]
Lisa Higgs – April Showers
April Showers You forget sometimes until you don’t, the loss— how we both knew without knowing we shared rising alone at daybreak to rain as an act of truth seeking a way to be less lonely. Rather, to stand alone watching trees step from formless to form by sound, birdsong shaping sight’s sudden onslaught, is […]
