Hayden Saunier – This Horse
This Horse (after “Horse,” a cyanotype in sixteen panels by Carrie Witherell) Its white bones float on blue, its meat a ghost around the bones, an afterimage pegged to a wall with silver tacks. * Whether the blue is the blue before dawn or the blue after dusk, no way to know. Magritte blue, streetlights […]
Natalia Conte – Miracle Child
Miracle Child Before me, nine years of fallow, nine babies conceived, then lost before the first finger formed: my grandfather told my mother to call when she had good news to share. What my mother called a miracle, I called ten pink fingernails perfectly intact. What my mother called God’s hands, I called blue latex […]
Patricia Caspers – Juera
Juera I whittle your life, Agapita Cervantes, from ink stamps, history books, photographs as brittle as the wings of a sun-bleached fly on the sill. I trace your path, as you crossed yourself, the border, crossed and crossed again, a baste stitch needling the seam as quickly as war tore at the threads. Was it […]
Lee Rossi’s Darwin’s Garden: Studies from Life, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Lee Rossi Darwin’s Garden: Studies from Life Moon Tide Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman In Darwin’s Garden, the formidable poet Lee Rossi reflects upon life in 21st century America, as well as his own past decades growing up, through the lens of “a middle-class Catholic boy from the suburbs of St Louis…[t]wo generations away from Italy, […]
Anna Elkins – The Poet Enters The Architect’s Catacombs
The Poet Enters The Architect’s Catacombs Somewhere beneath the former Rue d’Enfer, Paris at a depth of 12 to 13 fathoms,[1] it’s core-quiet down here pieces of stone lifted by hand now lift the earth up from within herself, held with mortar of bones The memory of excavations is almost fragrant The ceiling above me once […]
