Richard Peabody – Witch Hazel
Witch Hazel sleek adroit Steampunk dreams naked thrift shop information rain file cabinets filled with hair a flea market that sells fleas a white elephant sale that sells albino elephants at the foot of mannequin mountain where the best rascals live and gallivant in their natty dreads and goggles Richard Peabody […]
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, […]
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 […]
Jeffrey Little – Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov) Find a carpet, find the cave, core a rock out with a spoon of broken fire and cut yourself a new tongue to talk with. Wait inside the rock. Speak, memory. I was fifteen, and a rogue, fifty, a meter maid, nine and I was new here, passing out snow globes […]
