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Issue #15 September 2012
Tongue of Language | Nightmare
Oh tongue of language, moving with your comb
Annie Finch
Nothing You Can Do Will Save You
The Buddha had his river, just for now this one is mine,
Molly Lou Freeman
The Peripheral Position of the Sun
A young woman roars, laughs, splashes the face of a young man, nears the shore where the blinking lights of fireflies
Marilyn Hacker
Zero Plus Anything is a World
Four less one is three.
Jane Hirshfield
Visitor’s Coming
I’ve laid out
Karl Krolow
Abbatoir Time
The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.
Sydney Lea
The Host of Turns
We were gathered in this kind of circus-tent,
Antonio Machado
And After the Ark
what was left behind was astounding:
Erika Meitner
From the River of News
The President and his opponent both speaking in Ohio—
Robert Pinsky
Bad Line in a Bad Paragraph
Where "grab a bite"
Lia Purpura
Poem in the Old Style
At the beginning of the play Hecuba was mourning her great losses. She made lists, blamed the Gods: they could
Ira Sadoff
Nursing Home
She had dreams fifty years ago
Vijay Seshadri