Amano
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Inspired by Frank Relle's "Amano," Jack Bedell composed his ekphrastic poem of the same name. Amano —Frank Relle Gallery, NOLA¹ Even what’s left of...
Poetry
Nuclear Family
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“The militarization of light has been widely acknowledged as a historical rupture that brought into being a continuous Nuclear Age, but less understood is...
Poem Beginning With a Line From Wordsworth
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, and the neighbor has shoveled his horseshit in the garden, bucket after bucket dumped from rusting...
Refractive Errors
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March birch: whose rags appear at first as roses, at least in my loose vision ...
American Cavewall Sonnet
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Wolf milk and wilderness America. Romulus and Remus built ...
Outside the Word Balloon
byfor Bill BerksonCandid paths crossingThis way and thatAn iron-on winter rain Jackknifes through the treesEffortless smileSuch capable handsSublime scribble Bending the windTurrets of excessOverlook…
Four Haikus
byI. she stalks the sunrise sees what hides undercover light breaks dark again II. what we have is rare a friend, cloud held mid-air,…
Harvest Season
byharvest season hello moonshine midnight once again. i find your cold skin searching for my own flesh in this passage of spring time. deep…
Addressing The Flaxen Spirit & Linen Women
byAddressing the flaxen spirit, not yet linen Threshing We come from deep loam, from fields of green, blue heads bobbing. To harvest true selves…
Suburban Deer
byOn the sidewalk. On the patio. From the backyard bushes. Doe and fawn leap toward open space to see my young— bright-eyed and sleek…