Winter 2014: Poetry
Bridge
by Jennifer Liberts Weinberg
Sometimes I stand at the kitchen window watch my neighbor pulling weeds in his yard and say how are you how are you. Sometimes I stand at my kitchen window and wave to couples walking their dogs and wonder how they live with all that hair. I say what kind of dog is your dog did you hear the frogs going on all night do you need me to take care of your mail your trash your child your lover your hydrangea as I scrub the kitchen off the plate watch the red bits and dish soap run down the drain. Sometimes I wave and they wave and I turn away and they keep walking down the street, through the park, into the small Colonial around the block. When you jumped off the bridge I was putting away the salad dressing, loading the dishwasher, wiping the countertop with an old blue rag. I wonder if you saw the reflection of the man rushing toward you in that cold clear rippling water. If you waved at him and he waved right back.
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LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR
POETRY After the Ice Storm by Linda Strever Waiting for a Diagnosis by Linda Strever Anticipation by Penelope Scambly Schott How to Survive the Loss of Your Best Friend by Diane Averill Current Conditions by Carol Ellis For a Hot Shot by Susan DeFreitas Focal Distance by Jenna Thompson Bridge by Jennifer Liberts Weinberg Motherhood by Elizabeth Stoessl Nice Girl Regrets by Pattie Palmer Baker Lost Child Lullabye by Tiah Lindner Rephael To Inhabit the Body by Willa Schneberg Love Letter by Annie Lightheart PROSE Like Water and Stones by B.E. Scully Messages by Mary Mandeville Fear Jars by Jessica Zisa Pie by Susan Lehman Confinement by Valerie Wagner ART Where the Buffalo and Unicorn Once Roamed by Katie Todd Midwestern Dreamin' by Katie Todd Monday's Child by Sarah Fagan Sweet Tea by Sarah Fagan The Daydream by Kendall Madden Beatrice by Kendall Madden YOUNG VOICES Chinese Mangos by Sophia Mautz The Bridge by Kate LeBlanc Ephemeral by Jillian Briglia The River by Sheila Panyam Compost by Sophia Mautz CONTRIBUTORS |