INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Fahredin Shehu
Elisavietta Ritchie
Uvie Gwewhegbe
Jennifer Burd
George Miller
Robert Penick
Laszlo Slomovits
Richard Gartee
Gale Acuff
Stephen Sleboda
Robert Nisbet
Chris Spitters
Silvia Scheibli
Michael Lee Johnson
Alicia Mathias
Alan Britt
Y. Przhebelskaya
Helen Gyigya
Aneek Chatterjee
Alex Ferde
Running Cub
Joanie Freeman
Shutta Crum
Fred Wolven
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Francis Ferde
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--editor / Southeastern Florida
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You Can Get There from Here
Grab your keys. Head toward the edge
of town. As soon you hit dirt
you’re starting. Starting back.
Think of the older wheels
that traveled these roads – early
cars, wagons. Think hooves.
Feet. Look at the trees – now second
or third or fourth or fifth growth,
diamonds of blue sky
in the interstices. Breathe.
You want to live here, even
consider selling your townhome
and renting a place. Become
a part-time farmhand.
You go to the cemetery
of your great-to-the-fourth
grandfather, listen to the trees
sway. You go down the road
to the cemetery of his grandson,
your great-great, and watch
the hills fall away into farmland,
just as he would have seen.
You’ve waited years
to get to this place where
you want to be with them, where you
realize the only way to touch them
is to breathe in the sweet grass
nodding beside the old farmhouses,
and walk the roads they walked,
every muddy step of the way.
Window
The window hangs
a new painting every day.
Today is the patient green
of cedar frond and choke cherry
leaf as the sun explains
the meaning of frost
and the thin fingers of maples
and elms write their graffiti
on the sky, which even
a passing cloud can't erase.
Three Haiku
the short night –
an old couple drinking tea
on the porch
open window –
“Sentimental Journey”
mingles with fireflies
Monday morning
lowering the anchor
of the tea ball
Jennifer Burd, Ypsilanti, Michigan