Bruce Bond – Willow
Willow As a boy, I gazed at the painting of a mountain, and although it did not move, I moved. I touched the diamonds of untouched canvas, extremities of blue in the long unruly hair of the willow where it bathed. It was a portrait of one man’s life alone as a mountain. I love […]
Bruce Weigl – Out Here
Out Here What do you want out here, I hear the night ask when I step out for something I can’t name but let’s call cool air. Then the night showed me faces in places I choose not to remember in spite of medication and mental health guidance. Some doors I keep closed for everyone’s […]
Sandra McPherson – For Cindy, Who Cut Her Own Throat: Sutter Psych Hospital
For Cindy, Who Cut Her Own Throat: Sutter Psych Hospital You most reminded me of that young rattler mid-trail in the hills — its lax but ready body measuring three-hundredths of a mile, I guessed. But barbed-wire’s lace is the more obvious likeness to your scars, the fashion of them, their short slashes crossing, with […]
Simon Perchik – *
* The flowers leaving this page open up in water are already heading back the way your shadow empties still remembers one by one icy streams crossing overhead with something more to give –you write another letter make the words embrace followed by day, by evenings and everything put on paper is safe, is mountainside […]
Florence Weinberger – Inspiration
Inspiration Magnetism, she claims is the source of her inspiration. Our earth’s a gravid rock that begs to be pierced. Perceived. Confessed back to itself. She gives it her mothered tongue dips its grudges, stropped cleavers, embers of dark inheritance into a potion made of potent odes and madrigals. Ejecting its dead clichés its random […]
