Winter 2015: Poetry
Love poem to an acquaintance
by Allegra Heidelinde
Catching your eyes across the room We smile. I say, "Great to see you." What I mean is I want to hold you for a long time. Undress you lovingly, like my daughter When she is too sleepy to be kind. Undress you So completely nothing is left but light, And that sweetness near your neck. There is hunger here It isn’t anything I know. It is woman's body upon woman's body, child-bearing Belly touching child-bearing belly, scars mismatched, Mothers’ breasts tumbling in profusion. When I see you something primal launches. Inside I reel and keen, souls' skirts ablaze, Hardly manage to contain my urge To leap and enfold you utterly. This is: something about Seeing and being Seen. This is: something about Desire, hot and plain. Come here, Dear, bring everywhere gravity has pulled. Bring the tired places you bury, I will wash them with milk, Honey everything hidden. Here Are my palms of devotion. Catching your eyes across the room We smile. Conversation pools around us. I say, "Great to see you." You wave fingers that write the way to my heart.
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LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR
POETRY A Great Wild Goodness by Annie Lighthart Going South by Christine Gray a welcome week by Hannah Sams Ophelia, at Fifty, in a Blue Blow-up Canoe by Deborah Dombrowski A Passing Music by Barbara LaMorticella Girl Fishing with Grandpa by Helen Kerner Perimeter by Amy Schutzer Two Poets in the Weight Room by Tricia Knoll Skeletons by Christa Kaainoa A Poem for Dany by Suzy Harris Lineage by Amy Schutzer The Bucket by M.K. Moen Bernier River by Christine Dupres Silence by Margie Lee Advice by Donna Prinzmetal Sometimes at Night by Jennifer Pratt-Walter Fissure by Elizabeth Moscoso Whale by Cathy Cain In the Modern World by Annie Lightheart Love poem to an acquaintance by Allegra Heidelinde Dialogue between Magician and Tattooist by Christine Gray Under the sign of the water bearer by Jennifer Kemnitz city spacious heart by Pearl Waldorf PROSE Bless Our Great Nation, Zambia! Zambia! by Gypsy Martin Liminal by Stephanie Golisch The Tomorrow Fire by Kelly Coughlin Ablaze by Heather Durham Left As It Was, It Would Come Apart by Jackie Shannon-Hollis ART Sibling 1 by Michelle Latham Sibling 2 by Michelle Latham Sibling 3 by Michelle Latham Totem by Kelly Neidig Stratum by Kelly Neidig Swift by Kelly Neidig Breaking Free by Erin Leichty Capture Threads by Erin Leichty Hardware by Erin Leichty YOUNG VOICES Visions on the Playground by Meghana Mysore Chasing Thunder by Berkeley Franklin Elegy for Christy by Lily Boyd Social Media by Maya Coseo A Hundred Acre Wood by Audra McNamee CONTRIBUTORS |