INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Deji Adesoye
Changming Yuan
Violeta Allmuca
Beppe Costa
Engjell I. Berisha
Narendra Kumar Arya
Akwu Sunday Victor
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Laszlo Slomovits
Stefania Battistella
Agron Shele
Lana Bella
Fahredin Shehu
Alan Britt
Silvia Scheibli
Shutta Crum
Running Cub
Alex Ferde
Irsa Ruci
Jennifer Burd
Paul B. Roth
Richard Gartee
Elisavietta Ritchie
Peycho Kanev
Helen Gyigya
Amit Parmessur
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Robert Nisbet
Jeton Kelmendi
Duane Locke
Richard Lynch
Jean McNerney
Fred Wolven
Ann Arbor Review
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Francis Ferde
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--editor / Southeastern Florida
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DEAREST WORLD, I AM WRONGED AND WAITING
my old nostalgia splinters
through the corridors,
rumpled as the last snow
flutters down the pines
in ribbons and light
and pale cold petals—
dearest world, I am
wronged and waiting,
the blue in my eyes
pulls salt from the earth
as salve for the eaves,
blinking fast into rooms
and walls, up the landing
then out the latticed rose,
needing to be pinched and
vexed then worked into
the root-prints of reed mats
and fledglings' shadows—
have I spent a lifetime in
this orphaned state poised
on my arches? a blur
against Death's traveling
coat, a timbre similar to
breathing, a silence after
the credits are cut to black?—
PRELUDE
there was a world of malleable,
element-decree, tide-wreck lingered,
storm-fed ribs culled from wind-
wept refuse, dust congealed inward
the fleshless curves and lengths,
where sugar pines sapped and sea-
salt brine your bones—
hands probed for stocks of
slatted
door, fingers slid around the soufflé of
dark—there was nothing so laid-
out or consumed as a body rippled
in a lonely trade of smarting feet over
cobble stones, capped in roots of
crushed violet shadows, where
your mind's eye traveled at last to
the sight of home—
HARROWING GIFT IN SO IMPLAUSIBLE A BEAUTY
I am the escapist hovers
above
the puttied pane, earthy and gnarled
like helix twisting in space.
Kerosene lamp yawns slim with
shafts of honeyed light, nestling into
the dissonant icy braids of tulip
wood casket. A grandfather clock sits
voltaic by the foyer, perhaps I will
survive me in behemoth courage,
through silent trees, with dervish
crowned the taut pall-bearers' gloves.
But with the embryonic dark I breathe
beneath the scent of dirt after rain,
of water, of weight, of miles of memory
whispering overhead then out into
the dew-ribboned surges of the plains
toward the plank-ends of the dock,
kissing the stiff folds my skin sieves.
Lana Bella, Nha Trang, Vietnam, and Hollywood Hills