Category: Spring 2012 Poetry
Eleventh Hour
by Kimberly Cloutier Green You were a big, horns – only concert of a man. I was your sapphire – tongued chameleon. Kiss me, kiss me.
Acequia
by Amalio Madueño can’t I believe it will flow forever all that time since the Conquest running through basalt in the high valley where I stand
Cañoncito
by Amalio Madueño all the way from Dulzura and all summer the brush had been thin, dry & for a stretch scorched to black stubble in Arroyo
Principle of the Moon
by Amalio Madueño Cold moist feebly shining feminine corporeal passive — the womanly the gentle Sister Bride Mother Spouse confab of beloved
Embudo Equinox
by Amalio Madueño first, let there be a soft rain out of the West, let there be a grey light in the bosque and the quiet adobe among alamosa,
Embudo Variations — Winter
by Amalio Madueñ I Two kitchen lemons fused by blue green fuzz; I hold the perfect citrus skin of one least rotten. A distant raven sways aside
Kafka
by Barbara Siegel Carlson Two o’clock on his way home. Sun beats down his neck, so he takes a different route. A pigeon begins to gurgle as
Gone is Not Forgotten for Bert
by Gerd Stern when you’ve got to go it’s a pisser of a when not just you won’t stay can’t, that is, however will you be going now here, there,
Checkin’ the Set *
by Gerd Stern there was nothing to forgive then murder impossible to forget drove your express spirit beyond this back beat of no time like no
No Space for Me
by R.S. Mengert When I was a boy, I dreamt of being an astronaut. I grew up freakishly large and half blind. No space for me. No floating