Jan/Feb 2011 |
e c l e c t i c a p o e t r y
(These are excerpts—click on the titles to view the complete poems)
Special Feature
— Word Poems
Poems containing the words gull, attic, trample, and metallic.
Dream
We searched the yard by flashlight for the objective correlative,
Of leaving home with a suitcase, on foot, by rollerskate
Helen Wickes
Headstone with Harvest Images
Dear wilderness, last night I dreamed
of an electric slumber
Sarah Sloat
Apocalypse for One
the cup waiting
to be washed, the view
over rooftops
Zoë Gabriel
As Real as Real
I am thinking of the continuum,
primordial soup to postsolar cinder,
along which we are borne
Oliver Rice
flash cards
she asks how long her mother
and i were married. i can't recall.
Ken Taylor
Building a Plane
"How do you plan to get this plane
out of your apartment?" she asked.
Bob Bradshaw
A Difficult Mountain
She tells me, these days
her dreams are of climbing uphill on a difficult mountain
where she is always falling short of footholds
Rohan Chhetri
Forecast
Each star begins apart from itself.
Each moment is lost.
The sum of us is ponderable.
Marc Frazier
An Appearance of Two Moons
I stood in the dark, the mercury streetlights
crackling
Marilyn Ringer
The Gentlemen Farmers
These are the lives
of those who have stayed in a town that has grown
too large for their vision of rural innocence.
Brad Buchanan
Untitled
you count out loud
as if one sun still touches another
Simon Perchik
Schuylkill
I can still smell
the mud of your shallows
from here
Jed Myers
Two Poems
Yet, we were nothing if not
culpable, our meek (yes, meek) encroachment
still hinting at extinctions yet to come.
Derek N. Otsuji
No Place. Like Home?
I tried to make small talk.
And succeeded.
A.J. Huffman