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
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- Poetry
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- Postcard Prose
By Sherry O' Keefe
Beauty is. We are driving back from my daughter’s birthday dinner at the Chop House on the far
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- Postcard Prose
By Sherry O' Keefe
I pick my path through the deep snow and kneel. Mittens off, macro setting on, I still my breath and focus on the shot. The world as I know it freezes, catches its breath and waits for Mother in a Red Coat to snap her shot
- Poetry
By Craig Cotter
I'm approaching 200 stitches in my career/ since going down the ice hill we made/opening a fire hydrant/ in Drayton Plains, Michigan / lectured by a fireman/ who was quite hot.
- Poetry
By Michael Bazzett
This is how I study history. I go there./
I see the sights and smell the smells/
which often entail fresh/
dung, spring/
rain, and copious animal odors.
- 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.
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