INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Chris Lord
Joseph McNair
Karyn M. Wolven
Geoffrey Philp
Paul B. Roth
Duane Locke
Silvia Scheibli
Shutta Crum
Felino Soriano
Steve Beaulieu
Donald Hewlett
Alan Britt
Joanie Freeman
Mervyn M. Solomon
Jerry Blanton
Marilyn Churchill
Running Cub
Mukul Dahal
Alice Paris
Helen
Losse
Fred Wolven
Enjambment is to poetry
what syncopation is to music,
a chapbook to a book
what a poem is to prayer.
So who could detect
what would be missing?
Who could possibly know
what it is that I covet?
EMPATHIC DEPRESSION
My sadness has stolen the beauty
from the spectrum, left ashes in its stead--
dark blackberry brambles,
poison mushrooms, chokecherries.
Outside my window, a bird is singing.
Her sound reverberates
in the springtime air. Blossom
thrives like grace notes, crowned with fermatas.
The room rocks with azure light.
A double rainbow comes pouring in,
and still, all the world offers me
is brown.
Helen Losse, Winston-Salem, North Carolina