Evocation
Swamp Angel
language itself was the first
action at a distance
blue Jewel bruises, white bites
abracadabra’d out of plosives & labials
elf–shot thunderstorms.
Call & response
moistured air carries the
weight of words
& we take responsibility
for all the “lost years” & “lost dauphins”
& the brilliant artificiality of
Sanskrit or Latin.
Then writing must be doubly so
if only there weren’t so much of it
bending in the wetlands of my heart.
Julie Poitras Santos
has poems that have appeared, or are forthcoming, online in Glint, The New Guard: Bang!, La Fovea, and the Wesleyan University Press blog. Her visual and performance work has been exhibited widely, internationally. She holds master’s of fine arts degrees from the Stonecoast Creative Writing Program and the University of Colorado.
Jefferson Navicky
his work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in filling Station, Crossborder, Storm Cellar, The Catch, and Smokelong Quarterly. He teaches English at Southern Maine Community College, works as the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection, and lives in Freeport, Maine with his wife.
Ashley Norman
Ashley Norman: her work stretches across various media and deals with mental illness, memory, taboo, normality, sexuality, and gender. Her art has been exhibited in several solo and group shows in New England and beyond including: STUDIO 659, Whiting, Indiana; Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NewYork; 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and Buoy Gallery, Kittery, Maine. She works out of her studio at Chase’s Garage Art Gallery in York, Maine. Her website is, www.ashleynormal.com
