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 […]
J.I. Kleinberg – Wing
Wing When I raise my wing it has no shadow. When I turn my head no wing is there. Night pond, silent, holds the face of the moon. I dream of oceans. Waiting is my first language. Have bees roused from their torpor? Is the egg cracked? In the storm, when earth seems to verge […]
Patricia Fargnoli’s Hallowed, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Patricia Fargnoli Hallowed/New and Selected Poems Tupelo Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Patricia Fargnoli’s recent book Hallowed combines new poems with selections from four previous volumes. Although she began studying poetry in her mid-thirties, Fargnoli, now eighty-two, published her first book just twenty years ago. A retired psychotherapist, she brings to her work a steady emotional […]
