Winter 2014: Poetry
Lost Child Lullabye
by Tiah Lindner Raphael
Let me witch her into being, moth fingers across my abdomen in a flicker of evocation. Then it can be the month I feel her swell to the size of a lemon, stretching the walls of my body to the shape of home, slick little blood-furrowed membrane grown from pockets of prayer and winterling stars, the Virgo of my inner sky. It will be the year we rock in the tire swing and draw our sticks through the white, soft sand, the year I almost drop her, the birthday when I hold her a little too tight until she squeals and shifts. Just don’t let it be the night a man asks me for identification, calls to inquire if someone can explain my presence on the playground or the unborn daughter I see ghosting down the slide into my empty arms. I close out the crescendo, those red and blue aurora-corners in my eyes so I can search for her, face down in the grass, where mist like whisper shadow sings to the hot, bittersweet moon.
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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 |