something like a love-song lurched across the room
and my heart was less than a dried-up crust of bread
the night pavement moving me far
from any place I could call home sweet hotel
oh the mexican belly dancers crying nada nada
oh the feisty mice with delicate feet and
the black wind cold as a hearse
advertising allows you to choose said the billboard
in god we trust said the money in the pocket
of the three-fingered man asking hopefully
can I buy you a drink honey.
About the author
Janice D. Soderling has published poems, prose and translations in hundreds of journals and anthologies. She became a time traveler via her latest collection,…
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Issue 11 · January 2011
Table of contents
- From the editors
- Poetry
- Ars Longa, Vita Brevis by Joshua Michael Stewart
- The White Village by Daniel Aristi
- [PostScript] by Helen Vitoria
- Raising the Dead by Ian Khadan
- Nashville by Janice D. Soderling
- Navigation by Donna Vorreyer
- Instead of a Hand Feathered by a Fountain Pen by R L Swihart
- Cologne by Rick Mullin
- Two Poems by Ani Gjika by Ani Gjika
- Manifest by Lisa Ortiz
- Market in Marseilles by Stephen Harvey
- Postcard Prose
- The Well by Annabella Massey
- Long Distance by Arlan Hess
- Midnight Voices by Matthew Zanoni Müller
- Travel Notes
More from The Journal
- Visual Poetry
- Visual Poetry
By Zachary Gambrill
black ink on paper
- Visual Poetry
By Zachary Gambrill
comic book cover
- Postcard Prose
By Lauren Barbato
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
- Poetry
The leak in your breathing/
tube makes a cartoon squeak./
It takes two nurses, silent/
as nuns, to place you/
in my arms...
- Poetry
If I have already/
gone insane/
but I want to get/
crazier yet,/
what’s my move?/
Go outsane?
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Poetry,
Visual Poetry,
or Postcard Prose