INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Bilall Maliqi
Duane Locke
Eddie Awusi
Silvia Scheibli
Amit Parmessur
Lyn Lifshin
Juan Hongi
Shutta Crum
Peycho Kanev
Fahredin Shehu
Lana Bella
Laszlo Slomovits
Abdulrahman M Abu- yaman
Elisavietta Ritchie
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Keith Moul
Aneek Chatterjee
Tom Evans
Robert Nisbet
Paul B. Roth
Alex Ferde
Alan Britt
Ali Znaidi
Running Cub
John Grey
Jennifer Burd
Fred Wolven
Helen Gyigya
Ann Arbor Review
is an independent
International Journal & ezine
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Francis Ferde
All rights revert back to each poet.
--editor / Southeastern Florida
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AAR history note: in print 1967 - 1980. Irregular publications 1980 - 2004. As ezine 2004 - present. Most of 51 years all together....
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AT WORK
This page
that greets me everyday
by lifting and waving
any one of its corners
holds its
breath
at each slow or fast
approach of my hand
as if drawn
in
by the sagging inhalation
of its parallel blue lines
where the
mere touch
of ink or graphite
to its own wordless skin
in pursuit
of
one letter after another's
syllabic consciousness
makes it
flinch and insist
I not only make
the best of its blank coloration
but go as
far
beyond its red lined margins
as possible
THE PERFECT BLEND
Take the
darkness
through which
each written word
needs to be seen,
shake it,
squeeze it,
cork it
inside a blue - tinted
wine bottle
that’s long come unglued
from its imported label
and then
put it aside
knowing
that if uncorked ,
its bouquet will spread
like nightfall along the blue bowl
of an ocean’s green rim
which is
why
when first decanting it
you'll want to be
careful no spill age sounds
the way its
name's
invoked by connoisseurs
who live to swish
and spit it out in buckets
no matter
how fleeting
or how subordinate to time
they are as are all things:
unfinished
Paul B. Roth, Fayetteville, New York