Issue number four beckons us out of our winter den, arouses us to move beyond the margins, beyond the threshold. Think of Narcissus navel-gazing in limpid pools of snowmelt. Think of wearing sandals without socks. Tiptoe through these tulips, and mind the droppings of goat-footed balloon men whistling far and wee.
inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land:
April is the coolest month, reading
The Literary Bohemian, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
new issue with spring rain.
Winter was warm, but let’s be honest —
there is much good in a fresh harvest
of greens & all the new & pretty things
the wind unclaims. Open now; begin.
Issue 04 · April 2009
Table of contents
- Poetry
- Two poems by Jacqueline Dee Parker
- Romances
- Two poems by Sarah J. Sloat
- Two Poems by Priscilla Atkins
- Two Poems by Martin Ott
- Magdalene’s Manhattan
- Two Poems by Michael Bazzett
- Two poems by Lily Iona MacKenzie
- Four poems by Suzanne Parker
- Two poems by Leah Browning
- Three poems by Hali Sofala
- Public Interest
- Three poems by Heather Derr-Smith
- Euphoric in Essex
- Postcard Prose
- Travel Notes