Poetry – Issue 38 •Anthropocene Pastoral Catherine Pierce In the beginning, the ending was beautiful. . . .
Poetry – Issue 38 Pancha Maha-Bhuta Rajiv Mohabir Akash, Sky / You are not this. / The body you now wear / will tear like silk.
Poetry – Issue 38 brd Anthony Cody stdnt sks / hw s th flyng thng splld? / tchr sys / ll th sft lttrs hv blwn ff. . . .
Poetry – Issue 38 Water Path / Aguacamino Rossy Evelin Lima Let me gather the river with my hands / to guard it in my mouth, / may its current open a path for me / in the loneliness of silence.
Poetry – Issue 38 A Spell for Lamentation and Renewal Ned Balbo For the quiet of the hazel In the quiet of the hazel / For the seed inside the acorn In the blazing of the bluebell. . . .
Poetry – Issue 38 The River Remembers January Gill O’Neil Here the water is silt-brown, / stretches mile-wide, / flat as a washed-out conveyor belt, / an unhemmed rumble strip.
Poetry – Issue 38 The Last Hummingbird of Summer Beth Ann Fennelly reveals itself in retrospect. Unlike the first, / whose March arrival bade you gasp, hands clasped. . . .