Winter 2014: Young Voices
Ephemeral
Poetry by Jillian Briglia
The weather vane spins the mermaid, the feather, and the star, merry-go-round like a spider web with dew, like raindrop beads on a necklace. The gray Mississippi river runs along muddy banks. The nightingale lives in a gold-rimmed wine glass, a stem as delicate as her daughter’s bones. A flaking crescent moon dips into a pot of boiling navy blue, and the nightingale decides to nibble on the corners. The crumbs fill her stomach, the buttered powdery pastry slowly turns to cotton, but instead of iced tea and summer, she is full of fog. She stops breathing and her daughter does, too. The moon waters the moor below, brown tears like tea, tries to sing itself to sleep. The mermaid winks, dives off her weather vane, and swims into the gray Mississippi.
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Multi-faceted, poignant and inspiring. We’ve caught thirteen never-before-published poems by twelve master-class voices. |
Five women share their talent and themselves in new, surprising and heartfelt ways. |
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The lyrical language of five young poets will delight you. |
Meet the authors and artists who make the Winter 2014 edition a rich, varied and engaging experience. |
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 |