Pantheon
Columnar sunlight
Aslant across the curve, moves:
Mortar and pestle.
Did You Hear That?
Over cobblestones,
God’s sudden suitcase…
Dark. Run. Rain in Rome.
Parliamento
Aquariumlike
Smoked glass limo wherein swims
The Minister’s cheek.
About the author
Richard Kenney's most recent book, The One Strand River was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2008. He lives with his family on the…
Read the full bioIssue 15 · June 2012
Table of contents
- From the editors
- Poetry
- Postcard Prose
- Eiffel Tower by Karen Greenbaum-Maya
- Invitation by William Kelley Woolfitt
- Rhinoceri by Bonnie Bishop
- Travel Notes
- Theft by Lee Haas Norris
- The Silhouette Artist by Rachel Chambers
- Walls by Robert Keiser
- Xavier Meets the Wall by Heather M. Surls
More from The Journal
- Postcard Prose
By Kelly Hill
Trying to wrap my mind around living on a tropical island for thirteen years and never once seeing the ocean, I stumbled through my Indonesian vocabulary to say, It’s good. It’s big.
- Travel Notes
By Sandra Larson
A dinosaur dangles over my grandson at the Field Museum near a pink thumb that pops into the prom picture of my granddaughter dressed in strapless red leaving her house in Medina …
- Travel Notes
By Megan Hallinan
The bill in question is actually a 2,000 West African franc note, and it’s the equivalent of about four U.S. dollars. A helpful sum, really, but as I clutch the weathered crinkle in my sweaty palm, its value feels as dirty as the grime that is undoubtedly being transferred to my fingers.
- Poetry
to Egg and Berry brewery, to the pack / of Czechy words I made but didn’t work / in this pink town. I’d readily go back / to your best spots, the unfired gun, that perk //
- Poetry
By Jason Warren
And if the neap tides of my beauty / sadden him, I cannot help it: / I hang high, the waxy night light …
- Poetry
By Anastasia Vassos
Three thousand ancestors ask how I straddle / the sea, a foot on either shore. //
Read more Poetry or Postcard Prose
