Category: Winter 2013 Issue
Third Version
by Sarah Wetzel The rain leaves fingerprints in last summer’s dust of the window, while just off shore, anchored and waiting, the barge that will
Wildfire Season for Jane
by Angela Patten I see you on the concrete streets of East Liverpool, Ohio that industrial Crockery City where you were born. Your red hair like
Poem in Late April
by Angela Patten Just before The Great Disappointment when the Elect could still believe they had been singled out for salvation Just before the
Prodigal Moon
by Daniel Lusk More April cruelty: a friend denied tenure, aunt learns of bone cancer, brother suddenly gone. Budding spirea shattered, peonies
Meditation: March 7
by Daniel Lusk Where the pond will rise as deep snow ebbs slow–wise, brilliant light on oak and hemlock shadows fading paw prints. I could
Grief
by Daniel Lusk Now it is happening in the past: my brother is gone and I did nothing to stop him. Rain and snowmelt washed out the lane and I did
Some Winter Poems
by Daniel Lusk 1 Little blue finch has died. I should have known she’d not withstand cold in her cage alone. I buried her under the apple tree by
altar inclinations
by Ron Winkler translated from German by Jake Schneider the way I knew you, as a chant from naked fragrant June and the way you could
at island 35 for A. P.
by Ron Winkler translated from German by Jake Schneider the sea is flawlessly whipped up. it earned a more unsettling designation.
at a water neither river nor pond
by Ron Winkler translated from German by Jake Schneider wind forces flagellations on the trees — a suffering grasped out of thin air.