Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
“On the Past” by Marvin Glasser
Marvin Glasser
ON THE PAST
It wasn’t a bad day as days go.
I awoke in the morning.
I was still around at the end.
Another gauntlet run.
The problem was all the other days
that washed up against it
bringing the wrack of memory,
neutered hope, mute regret.
They certainly cast a pall.
What the day might have brought
on its own, who can tell?
One of [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
“Even the Nails in the Sheetrock Missed Her” by Cheryl Gatling
Cheryl Gatling
EVEN THE NAILS IN THE SHEET ROCK MISSED HER
When she entered a room, the room paid attention.
When she entered his house,
the leather couches plumped up and shone,
the hardwood floors were giddy with tapping
against the soles of her small black shoes,
the books on the shelves jostled each other
for a better view of the waves of [...]
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
LICKING THE SPOON by Joanie Dimartino
Review by Linda Benninghoff
LICKING THE SPOON
by Joanie DiMartino
Finishing Line Press
PO Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
ISBN 978-1-59924-160-9
2007, 30 pp., $12.00
www.finishinglinepress.com
The poems in Licking the Spoon are about women—women having children, women involved with men, and women–in some cases, generations of women–cooking. The motif of cooking runs through most of the book and is introduced with the [...]
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
“Death, Again” by Mark Gibbons
Mark Gibbons
DEATH, AGAIN
for Howard “Bud” Meyers (1932-2003)
And why not?
Isn’t it what we know best
and least, that fear,
the bottom of it all,
where each year we seem to burn
more bones than we bury?
Why does it really matter to us
how others dispose of our remains, the stiff
lifeless clay God “all mighty” won’t claim?
I guess it’s just our need
to [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
“Narrow Openings” by Francesca Bell
Francesca Bell
NARROW OPENINGS
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain
and a contentious woman are alike.
—Proverbs 27:15
It’s hot. The clouds’ soft faces
are closed, a billowing refusal,
and I want to quarrel
with my lover who just sits
risen dull from a bed we left
damp as horses that have run
for a long time. Hair hangs,
humid and tangled, on my [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
SCHOLARSHIP GIRL by Lesley Wheeler
Review by Wendy Vardaman
SCHOLARSHIP GIRL
by Lesley Wheeler
Finishing Line Press
P.O. Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
ISBN: 978-1-59924-226-2
25 pp., $12.00
www.finishinglinepress.com
Scholarship Girl is Lesley Wheeler’s first poetry collection, although Wheeler, Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, is the author of two scholarly books, and the co-editor of Letters to the World, a just-published anthology of contemporary women’s [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
“Miss Memory” by Jake Willard-Crist
Jake Willard-Crist
MISS MEMORY
A woman on the radio can recall every day
of her life for the last thirty years. The weather,
headlines, whether it was Monday.
Ten years old on a rainy Tuesday she bought loafers
with her mother. A Labrador wrung itself out like a rag.
She compares autumns. Ranks Easters by hams.
Every morning in the bathroom she reflects [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
“My Neighbor Gives Me Meat Bones” by Hilda Weiss
Hilda Weiss
MY NEIGHBOR GIVES ME MEAT BONES
I bring her persimmons from the Farmer’s Market at midday.
Last of the season. Do you like to cook? Yes, I say, I like to cook.
Do you eat meat? Yes, I say, I eat meat.
I have meat for you.
It’s frozen. Bright red. Big chunks still on the bone.
No need to [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
“Morning at the Elizabeth Arch” by Joe Weil
Joe Weil
MORNING AT THE ELIZABETH ARCH
The winos rise as beautiful as deer.
Look how they stagger from their sleep
as if the morning were a river
against which they contend.
This is not a sentiment
filled with the disdain
of human pity.
They turn in the mind,
they turn
beyond the human order.
One scratches his head and yawns.
Another rakes a hand
through slick mats of [...]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
THE FRATERNITY OF OBLIVION by Larry D. Thomas
Review By Robert Neely
THE FRATERNITY OF OBLIVION
by Larry D. Thomas
Timberline Press.
6281 Red Bud, Fulton
Missouri, 65251
ISBN#: 978-0-944048-44-3
48 pp., $15.00
www.timberlinepress.com
One of the hardest traits for a poet to find in his work is originality. Most must begin with not only something to compel the reader to continue, but to compel the reader to continue this [...]
