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Category Archives: Poetry
Life As a Starship NAV System
Noel Sloboda Life As a Starship Nav System Left too long in sleep mode, an electrical spike untangles carefully-ruled grids laid over my inherited memories of everyplace I will have been and for one moment I float beyond my metal … Continue reading
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A Brief Suspension of History #32 amd #33
Darren C. Demaree A Brief Suspension of All History #32 Unknotting, my hobo heart, functioning like an engine, beautiful, no longer in need of pills, it still carries a whiff of cheap wine, of women & their rattled stances. Nervous … Continue reading
Origins
Sylvia Ashby Origins for my mother Amidst the fiery stars—souvenirs of the old explosion— is there a murmur of music, a trailing whisper, a silken ribbon of melody? Not the persistent rhythmic hum— that microwave remnant of ancient cosmic trauma— … Continue reading
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“These fences”
Simon Perchik * These fences, half done, half still counting the afternoons that return alone and those with no way out –the dead must like it here, come by bring the family, lawns, let you get to know the neighbor’s birthdays, what they remember –this colony … Continue reading
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Slow Gods
David Barber The Slow Gods A brief tumult of gravity, particles, star birth, rashes of supernovae, life, swollen suns and galaxies smashed. In the beginning was the Age of Stars. As biologicals gauge time, by the orbits of worlds, the … Continue reading
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Everything Old Becomes New
Jane Yolen Everything Old Becomes New Everything old becomes new before it dies. Chrysalis, a moment before the butterfly stretches those limp and limpid wings, exchanges breath with its quaking prisoner. The egg about to crack apart openly remembers the … Continue reading
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Intro to Poetry 1Q2014
It is appropriate to begin a new year with a New Year’s poem. Jane Yolen treats us to this holiday bonus feature, “Everything Old Becomes New.” The selection of the next six poems is an eclectic mix. “Metal Lark” by … Continue reading
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1Q2014 Book Reviews
Old Souls and the Grammar of Their Wanderings by Berrien C. Henderson (Papaveria Press) I’ve been waiting to read this retelling of Arthurian Legends, Old South style. Henderson needn’t have worried; it is not the love child of Jeff Foxworthy … Continue reading
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At Emily Dickinson’s House, 2003
Austin Wallace At Emily Dickinson’s House, 2003 Just down the street she hid—and wrote— Transcribing fevered Dreams— One syllable—then two—became The turbulence of Storms I find her house marked on the map— From here—five minutes south— Outside a … Continue reading
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Space like Hands
Space like Hands by Chloe N. Clark you know they found a chupacabra not far from where I live and the body, because it was only a body lost of life not living still, made the newspapers, … Continue reading
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