Category: Winter 2011 Issue
Told Again — The Short Life of Yu Xuanji
by James Koller A dark wind filled with rain blows branches against darker walls. The stuff of wild dreams. Thighs covered with light
Walking with Yi Kyubo
by Geoffrey Gaddis I walk through seasons to find words for poems. A stirring sprinkles dapples on the leaf floor. Soon bare limbs will toss
Sit by the River
by Geoffrey Gaddis Water shapes its banks, banks shape the river. One is constantly containing change, the other constantly changing. One stands
A Message From the Memoirist — for Bibi
by Paul Pines 4:00 AM at the Northwoods Inn the room temp set for 70 but the fan never stops blowing I can’t sleep imagine writers driving
Interview With the Old Poet: Ferlinghetti at 91 — for David
by Paul Pines A star is born again and again and again until it becomes a Black Hole and no light can escape its density this enormous
The Transcendental in January
by normal “Winter midnight My voice does not Sound like my own.” — Otsuji Snow to
The Fire Starter
by David Sloan “Scatter as from an unextinguish’d hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind.”
The Spaces Between
by David Sloan What insistent whispering crowds out sleep? It coats me like pollen, buoys me against the weight of daylight, points to the spaces
Sonny Kenner has his red guitar
by Kevin Rabas in hand, and moves through the melody as if what he wants is for everyone now to give and get that long kiss in this room on this
We Read
by Kevin Rabas At the Olpe Chicken House behind glass there’s a copy of Ken Ohm’s new book, Ducks Across the Moon. An old woman and her husband