A Girl Goes into the Woods
A Girl Goes into the Woods Lyn Lifshin NYQ Books ISBN: 978-1-935520-32-0 Reviewer: JoSelle Vanderhooft With a publication history dating back to 1969 and encompassing 130 books and three edited anthologies, Lyn Lifshin is one of the US’s most prolific and, perhaps, difficult to categorize poets. Regardless of genre or medium, many writers, poets among […]
Homecoming
the rocket falling all the years of stars collected in pearly pools rush by as the white egret turns to watch in this melted dawn our swift return to Earth homecoming means new hugs new breath new minutes to lie down in the grass of rivers and antiquity I missed the wind the most green […]
Autumn Dragons
Gone now are their ephemeral green scales, replaced by a brighter palette of red and gold and yellow, and mounded sinuously by a combination of rakes, my three kids, and some applied direction. It’s a leaf dragon, I tell them. Akin to a grass snake, and slain by young warriors. We need now to ensure […]
The Merchant of Venice: For Love or Money
“The world is still deceiv´d with ornament./ In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt/ But, being season´d with a gracious voice,/ Obscures the show of evil? In religion,/ What damned error but some sober brow/ Will bless it and approve it with a text,/ Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?/ There is no [vice] […]
I Exude in Partials
A strong wind blew across the avenue. It felt like a December gust, but Kass had lost track of the months long ago. It sliced into his face as he twisted and turned and tried in vain to prolong his current slumber. He soon arose, stricken with restlessness. He staggered across the littered sidewalk, sidestepping […]
