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Issue #14 August 2012
Last Poem
Reader, today
Simon Armintage
A God | A Poet | “Facesti come quei che va di notte…” | The Mocking of Ceres
Here lies a god who was obtuse, just like us.
Yves Bonnefoy
The Shape of Things
I’ve been reading the science books again
Christopher Buckley
Standing by a Coppice Gate, Reading “The Darkling Thrush”
The city gate loomed at century’s end,
Brian Culhane
One and a Half Poems
Well it began with a microburst from the North when the moon
Patrick Donnelly
You Have to Lead the Sheep
A dream struck a dream
Sylva Fischerová
A Snow Woman
A window on a side yard in winter.
Daisy Fried
Tool & Die
In the final unburdening, massive crates are moved
T.R. Hummer
from Nothing in the Dark
My mother would assuage my childhood night-fears by saying There's nothing in the dark that you can't see during
Fred Muratori
Evening
The blue chair on the terrace, coffee, evening,
Cees Nooteboom
In the Vanguard
It takes a few notes, a very few notes, to undo the bare bones of a person. Where formerly we were piecework in a
Ira Sadoff
1945
The winter trees offer no shade no shelter.
Jean Valentine