Malice became the word we wanted / to drink from, the long-stemmed glass / you broke by squeezing your fist, / the tart wine I poured on the wound.
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Suppose There Were Light
Suppose you were a pilgrim / chilled beneath your heavy tunic, / your village receding / as your steps carry you farther / than you have ever traveled.
Book Review: Litany of Flights, by Laura Reece Hogan
Laura Reece Hogan’s award-winning collection of poems, Litany of Flights (Paraclete Press), draws us into a watercolor of words where the material world she vividly presents bleeds into another world, one invisible yet powerful in its beauty and Providence.
Elsewhere
I live now in a land of ritual courtesies. / There is gentleness, mi compañera. Is it that way in / / The ghost world?
When You Fell
Did you sense / a chill before you ascended that ladder / your pupils growing in the barn light / your child hand gripping rail
Thou Shalt Not
I want to die to see what it's like, then / come back again and tell folks what I saw
Another Bleeding Title
rends itself across the page. You say obviously / as if it’s clear, but I have no idea / / what you mean.
Book Review: Flying Yellow, by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
Like the best marriages, the term pietas metrica, employed by the poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, joins the highest expressions of nature and religion. Suzanne Underwood Rhodes’ Flying Yellow: New and Selected Poems further deepens and humanizes this notion, moving from the “pitch-black storms” of girlhood to a “ladder of arms” raising her to an ecstatic Sufi-like whir capturing in word and heart the fruited world around and within her.
Pro Patria
Someone says "my country" / and I see a riverbed and many brooks. / I hear brakes and bells, see a pigeon / shot from the sky, small cloud falling.
Psaltery & Lyre 