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Issue #19 January 2013

Guy Mendes
“Creation Myth, Washington County”
from Signs & Wonders

  • The Caravaggio Room

    Yuck, you heave in front of that sick boy

  • Without Apology

    Things happen. We’ve been promised

  • Seventh Circle

    And after the fight the moment of awakening

  • Ars Poetica, with Cow

    She went back to look at the beast, which lay immobile except for one eye watching the girl who stood helpless beside

  • Poem with Allusions

    The thoughts that come on little cat feet

  • On Either Side of the Word Lie

    The letters that must be taken away

  • Wolf

    Ink black, shark toothed, slithering

  • Morgellons

    Jorge Luis Borges translated Thomas Browne

  • My Lovely Garonne

    Because every tenth poem or so the poet described

  • The Birthday Ceremony

    Seventeen rooms of long maroon

  • Spectacle | Dear Bathtub | Freeway

    Your eyewear and my eyewear,

  • Purity | A  Withered  Rose

    Amazing solitude.

  • The Gifts

    The closet where the black sweaters hang. Where the game of backgammon is played