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Issue #61 August 2016

  • Editor’s Note

    Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 61 –   August: and as threatened, another anecdote from my miscreant youth –…

    Editors Note

  • Jean Valentine: To Stay Open

    Interview with Jean Valentine, Saturday morning, June 4, 2016, Schumaker Pond, Salisbury, Maryland.   Our conversation began the last morning…

    Featured Selection

  • MOMMY HARANGUES POOR RANDAL | TO RANDAL, CROW-STEALER, LORD OF THE GREENHOUSE

    Money is self-comprehending,

  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—

  • THE BEAR IN THE WHEELCHAIR

    The bedside window is cracked a little, for fresh air presumably, and a lopsided venetian blind bangs softly in a

  • Those little plastic number puzzles | Linnaean

    given out at grade school parties:

  • Yard Art in Georgia

    Their presence was sudden.

  • Suburban Landscape, Summer

    Me, young and girlish, flesh not yet mourning.

  • Mantra Post- Storm Desmond

    After thirty-six hours indoors while Desmond

  • VISITORS

    Having just arrived, we are walked down a moonless

  • from Canisy

    Whenever we lined up to march into class, the assistant at my grandfather’s school always had us sing the kind of

  • The Transit Hall on Pier 86

    They say there’s a place in the brain for faces

  • LIMESTONE GHAZAL

    My windowsill’s lined with fossils, whorled limestone

  • Grade School Cafeteria

    When it has been

  • Mahtem Shiferraw: Fuschia

    “In the Lion’s Den,” a rare persona poem in Mahtem Shiferraw’s debut poetry collection Fuchsia, gives voice to the biblical…

    Book Review