Pamela Wax – A Prayer of Jerusalem for Yehuda Amichai
A Prayer of Jerusalem for Yehuda Amichai Hope is a memory of the future. —Gabriel Marcel On full moon midnights I meet the dead poet at David’s Gate. His satchel bulges with leather-skinned pomegranates bleeding juice. The tourists, there to walk the ramparts, look past him to the tower. I am not […]
Carolyn Oliver – Three Highways
Three Highways Dusk: two boys single file carry themselves, their arms crescent moons under trees humbled by moths’ winter webs. Bulbous, tumbling out of the rockface, ambuscades of ice. —— Half-broken house lists into another spent field. Geese battalions muster over the marsh. Beyond the reeds an islet of ice, eyeful of a piano webbed […]
Alan Britt’s The Tavern of Lost Souls, Reviewed by David E. Poston
The Tavern of Lost Souls Alan Britt Červená Barva Press Reviewer: David E. Poston It has been fifty years since Mantras: An Anthology of Immanentist Poetry, edited by Alan Britt, first appeared. Britt has now published twenty-five collections of his own poetry, with The Tavern of Lost Souls being one of two that came out […]
Lee Jacobus – In a Boneyard in Galway
In a Boneyard in Galway In a boneyard in Galway I stepped into an open grave the grass above my head, invisible, a vacancy waiting for me. It was my fall from grace, a shock as I penetrated the darkness. I never felt so Irish as at that moment looking up at the cloudless sky, […]
Amber Flora Thomas – On a Sunday
On a Sunday I have suspected all along that I would forget you. When pressing the water out of a teabag. When a hummingbird slips its head in a fuchsia flower and pees a silver thread as it exits. When following a path along the bluffs to a cypress worn in the wind-shape of clinging […]
