Issue 12, October 1997
William Burns - 2 Poems
My Octopus
My Octopus is furry now
the refrigerator is broken
I can't feel the fire coursing under
the stainless steel skin
A languid moon agonizes all over
the shiny things in the kitchen
If that were plastic
it would still break
Get up, damn it
get up!
The Visionary
I pop out my eyes
plop - plop
Into the glass of water
beside the bed
I close my lids
over the sockets
(You can hardly tell
my eyes are not in)
And dream a blue-sky world
filled with brilliance
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Table of Contents
Cover
Editor's Desk
- Nora-Maria Iancu
- * Childish Song II
- Liz Haight
- * A State of Despair in Thirty-Seven Minutes
- Amy Wright
- * Hunters and Gatherers
- Karen Craigo
- * Haiku, late summer (a prayer)
- Ray Heinrich
- * and by now we both have...
- Dancing Bear
- * The Cover of Her Notebook
* Requiring Closure
* Earthquake Weather
- William Burns
- * My Octopus
* The Visionary
- Spark
- * Hot Night
- Caron Andregg
- * New Orleans
* Oatmeal
- Michael Brackney
- * Autumn Dance
* Tommy From the Coast Remembered
- Perry Thompson
- * May in London
- Fanny-Min Becker
- * From My Kitchen Window (iii)
- John Carle
- * Review of Fanny-Min Becker's fleeting
Writers' Biographies
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