Issue 15, January/February 1998
Stephen Pain - Two Poems
We could walk right through each other
We could walk right through
each other
so unworldly are you and I
we sit on a bench while a dragonfly
skips the light of
September
it's gold and blue
transparent wing like a
stained glass window
through which I can see
slips of white and blue sky
And as a penitent
I could talk far above
my words embossed on a nearby
tree, its branch charred by
last year's lightning
I know
you would leave me
to look at my landscape
disfigured by an inappropriate
trope:
like the two of us in love.
Really
Really, it needs the touch of
a Robert Creeley
those intimate
moments of
domesticity
something he hopes
would bring you to
attention
and say, Yes,
it is in
its carnate
simplicity,
the truth warm
and frank, the hearth
by which you and I
could sit and talk
I could then look
at you, and look
again, and again
infinitely.
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Table of Contents
Editor's Desk
- Melissa Hill
- * Mystery
* Two Weeks: Parts 5 and 6
- Gerard Wozek
- * A Time When Hunted Things Are Safe
* The Imp
- Michael Billard
- * Untitled
* Slipping Past
* On Hearing the Military...
- Alex Pilling
- * Shifting Dimensions
* Sacred Duty
- Liz Haight
- * Rockwell Dinner Grace
* Autumn Letter
- Chuck deVarennes
- * Sunday School Lessons
- Mike Barney
- * Singing the Silence
* Reply to the Unctious Vegan
- Perry Sams
- * Bongo Coast
- Joe Kenny
- * Under Load
- Dancing Bear
- * The Memories Hide
- Ray Heinrich
- * becoming a writer
- Karen Wurl
- * Third World Weekend
* Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred...
* The Existence of Angels
- Robin Sommo
- * Perfume
- Timothy Clark
- * Kisses
- Scott Murphy
- * Stalin, Dying
* Interrogation
* Slide
- Fanny-Min Becker
- * going
- Caron Andregg
- * The Theorems of Desire
* The Late Shift
* It's been ten years
- Perry Thompson
- * Droppin' Acid with the Devil
* Were the Children Also Wicked
- Michael Hoerman
- * Eight Hour Pass
- William Burns
- * The Wire Hydra...
* Davida and the Mental Giant
- Joy Reid
- * Cape Conran
* My Claim
- Philip Havey
- * Blaise Cendrars
- Ben Ohmart
- * Lace Colored Dandies
- Stephen Pain
- * We could walk...
* Really
- Dave Sloan
- * The Weight
* Dead Monkey Grows Cooler
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