Issue 9: | August 2021 |
Poetry: | 9 words [R] 51 words [R] 52 words [R] |
oblivion banjo
voices of the lady
above the river
Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing
A girl goes into the woods a journey with two maps bringing together what is amazing delights & shadows bright dead things the green of sunset the savagery of bone the whole motion a wild surmise parts of a world perennial forest primeval the holy forest
Visible Signs
Stay, illusion Strike sparks where I live Embers on the stairs The burning particles drunk with light The redshifting web Rose sky country intensifications Fire to fire Palm frond with its throat cut Bright stain That peculiar affirmative a hunger What we ache for At the table of the unknown
—Poems and photographs are reproduced above from the poet’s Facebook galleries with his permission.
is a Los Angeles-based writer and photographer with an MFA from California State University, Long Beach. His work has appeared in San Pedro Poetry Review, Synkroniciti, West Texas Literary Review, Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and other publications. His second poetry chapbook, Beneath a Glazed Shimmer, won the 2019 Clockwise Chapbook Prize and was published in February 2021 by Tebor Bach.
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