Selected Poems

PROPERTY
Ronald Wardall

THE 21ST CENTURY BLOOMS
Karl Gluck

HAVING A BANKRUPTCY
Margaret Barbour Gilbert

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ISSUE NUMBER FOUR

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ISSUE NUMBER FIVE

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ISSUE NUMBER SEVEN

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ISSUE NUMBER EIGHT

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ISSUE NUMBER NINE

AND DANCED ALL THE MODERN DANCES

The root word supposed,
there remains the amount of time
it takes
a moonbeam to travel a nerve’s pathway

The pinned female presence,
tenuous, fragile, lithe—
naked in the wet grass

or cylinders of cut light, round in the dusk

(miles over the moonstruck boat
over the
silver banks)

or bleached stones
like the bare-assed Christ Within—
straw man, the unformed mannequin of threes—

love clipped

The root word still hunts—
in the way an adulteress dances
in the way the damp earth takes her shape

Erica Carter