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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BEGINNING...
Each afternoon when I walk over by the stream
I find a place under an oak tree
a place comfortable enough
to sit, to relax overlooking the field across the water.
I take whatever amount of time
until I begin to feel my shoulder muscles loosen
and my hands and arms free from stress
then I know I am ready to begin writing.
What I put down in my notebook
amounts to little more than notes
whether ideas resulting from seeing beauty
in objects dotting the field or vivid
impressions of the wild grass
and moss underneath my tree.
Other times it can be a listing of images
drawn from the mixture of clouds
and baby blue sky overhead.
Usually these notes won’t start to
become lines of a poem until
a few days later when I have time
to begin blending thought
and image into what father
would call spirit language.
Running Cub, Everglades