Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags Fine Southern Farm Girls By Nicole Yurcaba We were the kind of young women who came home from a hard day’s work on the farm covered in tractor grease halfway up our arms, our biceps well toned from ten-hour days of pitchin’ bales, unashamed of the field dirt beneath our […]
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Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees, the Ultimate Ornament
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees The Ultimate Ornament By Foster Cameron Hunter Carolina’s blue unfurls. Serenity’s gate is opened wide. Ruby dances iridescent. Passion never sleeps. Summer sun’s vehement glower is spent, and through autumn’s pied palette, hand in glove we traipse into the skeletal forest. Winter throws long shadows […]
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, November’s Maple
Ten. A nice round number. What better way to close the year than with Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags? The theme is finery, in all its glory or all its decay, as each writer envisioned it. At times festive and at other times somber, perhaps the best collection assembled of feelings associated with holidays. In […]
Opening
Daniel Dowe’s most recent poem to appear here was Untitled 2 (October 2011). Opening By Daniel Dowe A small compact clementine, indented with my thumb. How far to push, to squeeze, til the rind breaks through. Once I was a martyr to the sculpted life. Never stepped off the platform, Carved by my own chisel, unreleased from […]
Waiting
Christopher Roe’s most recent poem to appear here was Ruins (October 2011). Waiting By Christopher Roe It’s getting late and the computer sounds like crickets its screen alight with hope and I wait for an email, a good night email from you. And I wonder what you are doing. Are you sipping wine? Are you in your […]
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