Edytta Wojnar – At a dinner party
At a dinner party the hostess is half goddess half bird— a common cuckoo immortal & beautifully feathered; a heron a heroine—her hair highlighted thoughts luminous in & out of the house perfectly lined lips round with vowels marking with precision shiraz in a crystal glass six seven eight times she seems to be the […]
Susan L. Leary – Lilacs, Music, Boy
Lilacs, Music, Boy Music really does heal all wounds!! I will believe that until the day I die. —BLK, 8/18/2020 I conclude with a sound that is a boy in a field with his sketch pad penciling lilacs across a face. A boy, by his own remedy, trusting to drown out the warships & human […]
Ja’net Danielo – Danielo Home Movies [I think now of the dollhouse]
Danielo Home Movies [I think now of the dollhouse] I think now of the dollhouse, its rooftop– green-shingled, scalloped. I didn’t care much for the dolls. I just wanted to open & close a diecast dresser’s white drawers, run my fingers over painted-pink flowers. Oh, to sit, silent, by the red plastic fireplace & think, […]
Beth Suter – Crucible
Crucible The candle didn’t ignite the nightstand. There was no housefire. It’s not like burning. Grandma never picked the wrong mushrooms or mistook hemlock for dandelion. It’s not like poison. No one was smote by the lord or turned to a pillar of salt. It’s not like lightning. The whiskey wasn’t useless— the window wouldn’t […]
