Carl Boon – Borges
Borges What mind could make things happen here—on the plains of Uruguay, boys with blades tracing squares in the dirt, women whose skin found mountains to fade to? Myth, objects gathered on roadsides: a coin, a note in Persian, the idea you lost on the way to Buenos Aires ten thousand years ago. Later I […]
Dan Encarnacion – Saint
Saint An infielder’s glove webbing shoe-laced weathered stiff as This diner slag’s Tuesday smile—lost, its boldness the seared- In signature Ron Santo. Sunnyside-up were the Cubbies in ’69 then broke the yolk— yellow bleeding sopped by thin Toast, hash browns limp in greased sleep, sausages Shivered. Overcocked. We had cheered as long as my Brother could bear the pain. Wanted to be […]
Candace Pearson – Aubade: Again
Aubade: Again Darling, all night I have been flickering, off, on, off, on. —Sylvia Plath Good morning friend faithful one still here with me Last night you came to visit once more and through the wakened and wakening hours wouldn’t stop whispering and here you are again or you never left so insistent on loyalty […]
Lynn Schmeidler – The Moment a Husband Stops Being a Husband and Starts Being a Black and White Photograph of a Husband
The Moment a Husband Stops Being a Husband and Starts Being a Black and White Photograph of a Husband You were imagining little mountains in the soap bubbles in the bathroom sink all summer long and you forgot you were a leopard, meant to spot everything. More darkness every day. You wouldn’t know when, exactly, […]
Introduction by Marge Simon & Bruce Boston
We received around 2000 individual submissions for this special issue. As a result, we were given the chance to select twice as many poems as usual for publication. We offer you science fiction light and dark, a surreal visit with Lewis Carroll’s “family,” a wolf in its perfect essence, and an amazing look at wrecked […]
