Category: Fall 2012 Issue

James Koller
James Koller is best known as a poet, has read and published widely in western Europe and America. He has shown his art work in Rome and New

Franco Beltrametti
The poems printed in this issue by painter and poet Franco Beltrametti (1937 – 1995) were never before published, written in Italian, translated

Joanne Kyger
The first edition of Joanne Kyger’s About Now, her collected poems, was published in 2007 by The National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Maine. Born

We Are
by Bertie Koller are the people we know the people we’ve always known as through this life & others our spirits are blown or are we all

We Are Falling
by Bertie Koller we are falling to pieces like rain to the ground following our rivers wherever they are bound we are falling in love like tears

So Simple
by Bertie Koller I cannot understand what I cannot believe nor can I change what I will not let be there’s nothing so simple as the circling sun

Lullaby for Emery
by Bertie Koller sleep dear child child of snow where did you come from where will you go day bright with light night dark with none we have the

In Any Weather
by Bertie Koller I am sorrow waiting for a dream to gather up my pieces & toss them in the stream with curling toes & swirling woes where

Hold Me Like
by Bertie Koller grey skies & no wind at all the table set for two a candle burns at both ends amber rose & blue hold me like the puddle

Caught In The Lights
by Bertie Koller in loose fitting dreams by the light of the moon silver sharp & still he nurses his wounds cold fingers work quickly on the