Category: Published Issues
Three Horses
by Christopher Merrill I am the mare night forgot — blessed Brooding, brilliant. Remembered. I am the colt women corral, leaving Paradise,
Three Nonsense Poems for Hannah and Abigail
by Christopher Merrill How much mush is too much mush If you love mush too much? How much slush is too much slush If you love slush and such?
Three Questions
by Christopher Merrill And if there is no change in our condition? Seven hang – gliders set their sights on a lodge Boarded up since the
Three Seasons of Fighting
by Hugh Coyle i Last night, between skirmishes, we crept away from our lakeside camp and carved lines of love on the ice with knives and the tips
Shahid
by Tony Hoagland How could you, Shahid, have been so cruel, as to show us what self–love looked like? Was it a kind of punishment? It was
from “The Tinajera Notebook”
Forrest Gander * * * So the present hoses itself out. And with it — Sitting in the lobby of the clinic, its walls painted like
Collected Works
by Peter Marcus The world scoured by mop, broom and rain. Landscapes fallow as the moon, as my mother fretful without her wig between the
Farewell Beloved
by Michelle Demers They ask me to tell them what Shahid means: Listen, listen: It means “The Beloved” in Persian, “witness” in Arabic.
Dear Shahid
by Michelle Demers In Vermont, where the year has four, distinct seasons, you brought your exotic flavors to the mountain, and taught us all how
Tea Cosy from Kashmir i.m. Agha Shahid Ali
by Peggy O’Brien January. It’s been a year. You must be almost cosy Under your cold comforter. That’s, of course, just silly Poetry. Your body