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Summer 2014: Poetry


Weekend Wayfarers

 
Inside the dead sculptor’s studio – dayroom
for abandoned statuary – clay children
sprawl, limbs fractured, patched with dust.

Stray tourists wander there from the stone inn
next door, flattening spring crocuses
on their pilgrimage down the sea path.

They peer at the scattered clay bodies
through sand-caked windows. Waves rumble
and mock their voices, their murmurs

of weariness, flight and real estate.
Mornings, I pour their coffee and eavesdrop
on their wishful chatter: How they might buy it all,

market the broken bodies, display them
on the sculptor’s lawn. How they could be
innkeeper, salon-holder, biographer

of the sculptor and his loves.
How they will be recognized
in the general store.

Late afternoons I watch down on them
from my attic window. I plot gardens,
private meadows of no ordinary flowers

where they will never walk. They’ll leave
Providence on Sunday trains, and for a while
my clay children will be safe.



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LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR

POETRY

        Out of Eden by Melanie Green

        Under the Tongue by Cindy Stewart-Rinier

        it wasn’t the rain by Ann Sinclair

        And the King Was in the Counting House by Geraldine Foote

        Aurelia Aurita: Moon Jelly by Lois Rosen

        What Cape Alava Was Like Then by Linda Strever

        ʻAʻā by Burky Achilles

        Still Life With Cabbage by Margaret Chula

        Mother of the Drowned Child by Penelope Scambly Schott

        Summer, When Green Turns by Cindy Stewart-Rinier

        Relic by Jennifer Foreman

        From the yes column of “is there a god?” checklist by Jennifer Foreman

        Binders Full of Women by Shawn Aveningo

        Even in February Every Woman Wants to Be a Feast by Claudia Savage

        Weddings I Have Ruined by Tanya Jarvik

        Thicker Than Water by Claudia Savage

        Weekend Wayfarers by Elizabeth Stoessl

        Wordscape by Tanya Jarvik

        Talking Herself into Onward by Melanie Green

PROSE

        Tribes by Thea Constantine

        Carnage by Heidi Beierle

        Owyhee Barbie by Marylynne Diggs

        Permeable Divide by Kamala Bremer

        Pepper Anderson Meets the Amazon by Linda Ferguson

        The Day I Stopped Typing by Kate Comings

ART

        Brooke by Oriana Lewton-Leopold

        Elizabeth by Oriana Lewton-Leopold

        Silence Considered by Carole Murphy

        The Egg Sisters by Carole Murphy

        Garden Gate by Koka Filipovic

        Purple Shade in the Garden by Koka Filipovic

        Untitled with a Flamingo by Amy Robinson

        It's My Party by Amy Robinson

YOUNG VOICES

        A Work of Art by Leilani Garcia

        What the Bees Did to Me by Colette Au

        Things I never said by Molly Benson

        Wabi-Sabi by Janet Webster

        Foresters by Sophia Mautz

CONTRIBUTORS