INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Lana Bella
Laszlo Slomovits
Amit Parmessur
Elisavietta Ritchie
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Yuan Hongri
Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya
Alex Ferde
Karyn M. Bruce
Rajuish Mishra
Alan Britt
Patrick Ashinze
Shutta Crum
Fahredin Shehu
Paul B. Roth
Helen Gyigya
Aneek Chatterjee
Joanie Freeman
Gale Acuff
Robert Nisbet
Fred Wolven
Sreekanth Kopuri
Michael Lee Johnson
Silvia Scheibli
Richard Gartee
Ali Znaidi
Jennifer Burd
John Grey
Running Cub
Peycho Kanev
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Francis Ferde
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June, along La Furieuse river, France
The man slammed the car door and spoke
to the woman still belted to the passenger seat,
said, “OK, fine, but what do you want?”
She gave
him nothing, not a word of reply.
Only an obvious simmer. I pulled away from
the gas station, and waiting in the empty
of my own car was my answer for him:
the rise of a swallow as the sun breaches
the morning horizon of a long dusty field,
when everything is open, when the world
becomes small again, when it’s possible
to hold onto a single idea long enough to finish it.
Accelerate
Suppose you press hard
on the gas pedal again. A body
at 80 kilometers an hour is
both at rest and alert. Until
the black cat with the mouse
in her jaws crosses you
with a different kind of escape.
The light bends over your car
as you brake for her, as you
marvel at the shadow line of her fur,
at her soft paws and sharp teeth
as she achieves the safety
of a barn’s embrace. You will think
how easily you might have killed her,
and know that you, too, have done this
before. Gauged the distance. Fled.
Michelle Bailat-Jones, St. Legier, Switzerland