 |
| |
| |
| |
| Table of Contents |
| |
| Contest Winners |
| Allison Joseph |
| Maureen Tolman Flannery |
| Carissa DiGiovanni |
| |
| Poetry |
| Michele Battiste |
| Radames Ortiz |
| Brady Rhoades |
| Jennifer Weathers |
| Helen Wickes |
| |
| Fiction |
| Allen Gee |
| Michelle Panik O'Neill |
|
| Creative Nonfiction |
| Susana Chavez-Silverman 1 |
| Susana Chavez-Silverman 2 |
| Liz Dolan |
| |
| Author Bios |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
Issue 3
Poetry
Michele Battiste
Your Bed
was a caravan of gypsies without country—
rucksacks of clavicle, of salt-licked crimson,
slivers of silvered skin crossing palm,
a faded deck of tarot, fingertipped and risking
the upturned card of fool.
Every border crossing claimed a changeling,
demon-blooded limbs
that twitched with every touch
of othered skin.
Was I the stolen child or were you?
We were too tangled to tell.
The gypsies passed and cast a tarantella to our bones.
In the morning they are searching for a homeland.
In the morning we trace their tracks like reading braille,
like telling fortunes,
like the newly baptized wanting so much
to believe.
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|