Issue 17, April 1998
David Sutherland - Poem
Deep Adjustments
Naked as pearl this imbroglio
of images, scenes and predilections
flash like a minnow racing shore,
or fades as a bullfinch caw across field,
or stretches as the drum's grip
the leather grip of skin in palm
returns the bone's pearl.
Naked our grasp of eternal baths and faults
dashed on teething stones and
balled into fetal rounds.
As nothing of nothing moves closer, come closer . . .
Deep adjustments are coming
gratis pro Deo,
deep adjustments are needed.
Flipside? A linear world of start and stop characters,
the Gunga Din of a brothel's salvation.
Flip-side rapture's cuisine, a fete' dull to palate,
abstract and damn unpopular.
Served in atmospheric tranquility of a sleeping god,
whose eyes must be sunlight,
whose teeth must be rain.
Offered in the finest dream-like nativity
with dinner bell and bauble and shining
throat of celestial body, swallowed
from memory menu and guest, both
less than gracious, naked as pearl.
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Editor's
Desk
- Fanny-Min
Becker
- * Christina Becker (22)
* Not on Friday the Thirteenth
- David Sutherland
- * Deep Adjustments
- Tori Wilfred
- * Communion
* Broken Sidewalks
- Jim Graham
- * Trip
- Dave Skyrie
- * Welcome
* Early Rising in Montreal
* Winter Poem
* Postcard to Joanne
- David Donlon
- * A Spirit of Solitude...
- Peter Casey
- * The King of Grant Park
- Susan Young
- * Letter to Lazarus (from Mary)
- J. Kevin
Wolfe
- * One Strong Wing
* van Gogh Says
- Christopher
Stolle
- * Moist Darkness
- Jonathan Waterbury
- * After the Arson
* Here is This Olive
- Izabel Sonia
Ganz
- * Pansies...
* http://www.net
- Dancing Bear
- * Email Transylvania
* Birch Moon
- Ryan Gialames
- * crystal gamma rays
- Cheri Amey
- * Diversion
* Rhyth m
* Eating at McDonald's
- William Burns
- * Neglected Ghost
* Mess
* Reckless Abandon
- Marie Kazalia
- * tall grass
- Bridgette
Moore
- * In front of the subway entrance
* barely there
- Perry Thompson
- * A Saint Dreamed...
- Jody Solis
- * I Hear It
- Janet Buck
- * Winter First
* The Vapor Trail
* Certain Skunks
- Catherine
Farid
- * Scrambling
- John Carle
- * Review of Chandler and Rockstroh's
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