Issue #57 April 2016

  • INVENTORY | CAKE TIN

    Open door, high cistern, wooden loo seat
  • Editor’s Note

    Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 57 –   April. Brief, this time, thanks to my having been rather long-winded…

    Editors Note
  • GETTING READY THE HOUSE

    My friend goes to visit his grave
  • MARATHON | SHORELINE

    Jesus hears a swarm of bees beneath his porch. His television
  • Shoulder

    She flies south to visit me
  • De Profundis | Sea Song for Couples in Love

    Sometimes you are going past on a motorbike and you look up in time to see a woman who loved you hand in hand
  • Tails | On the Other Side

    When our tails fell off, we had nothing to wag or wave behind us, nothing to curl up or
  • A MORAL VICTORY IS STILL A DEFEAT

    It was late in the year and late in the day,
  • FIREFLIES

    Evenings when the children
  • PULSE

    Showers of snow geese.
  • Sieverts and Joules | Plate 136     Butter Lamp With Moths

    Maybe there’s a new way to be nuclear, not using rods with their troublesome impermanent cladding, their
  • Bridge Thrill

    After two days of TV airlifts and wheels-to-the-sky
  • Lawrence Matsuda and Tess Gallagher: “Blue Cocoon”

    “Blue Cocoon” is a collaboration between Tess Gallagher and Lawrence Matsuda. The entire book (three sections), entitled Boogie-Woogie Crisscross, is the…

    Featured Selection
  • In Brief: Bond, de la O, Denham, & Moeggenberg

    “This is how it feels, he thought, to be/the orphan of what you sacrifice to see,” Bruce Bond writes in…

    Book Review
  • A Face, A Cup

    The thousand hairline cracks in an aged face