Category: Winter 2010 Issue – Jack Myers Tribute
Rosy
by Patrick Dillon Once upon a time when yellow hens laid purple eggs, not long before she touched the car and went off into the photograph. high
Song of the Slave Poets
by Patrick Dillon We go blind at the deskpit Fussing out our commas Feeling for something like a teapot That will contain everything. Life is
Chandelier
by Joanne Lowery For lack of a better name, let us call this darkness “Klimt.” True, squares of white and gold tile his paintings, naked fish
Plath to Her Scholars
by Joanne Lowery Girls, aren’t you the ones who under the guise of “get a life” subsist in universities with towers of my books piled on your
Two Rivers
by Robin Behn A tune by Larry Unger — for Jack Myers Two minds, side by side. Your two minds walking a road, a road that plunges
Palimpsest—for Jack
by Michael Macklin Now freshly painted walls tremble in the hard light of November with secrets a carpenter scratched in framing pencil — No moon
he can’t be gone can he—for jack
by Christopher Soden word came days after at a poetry workshop consistent with the nature of our connection he was a friend rabbi father shaman
Passages—in memory of Jack Myers
by Marian Aitches 1 One by one, birds fly through the wide hall — shadows on fire – lit walls brighter than the
On Time
by Bruce Spang Do you hear the soft ohhs in the mist? These are sighs of God. They do not matter to the man — late, no doubt — who taps at his
Two comments on craft taken from his letters to Bruce Spang
Jack Myers — two comments on craft taken from his letters to Bruce Spang I. Form In my own writing, I strive to have all the