Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Mike Kocinski: Featured Poet (newly appointed Poetry Editer)
Michael Kocinski is the featured poet of this issue...we are good friends and have collaborated on many projects...even playing music on stage (him on harmonica)....so it just seemed fitting to ask him to work on this magazine with me. this poem is grackles by michael kocinski.
Grackles
for Bob Philips
I think they must all have been
heavy equipment operators or
veteran farmers in their past lives.
It's the way they walk,
I imagine their lunch-pail swagger,
the irridescent grease and oil stains
on thick cotton work blues,
the metallic sheen of daily blue jeans.
They rolled when they walked
back then, too, favoring distressed
joints and muscles wracked by use.
Still, their eyes did glint and shine
with avian brightness under buzzing
fluorescent tubes and sunlight hung
by chains from ceiling or sky.
Now they wander lawns, heads cocked,
purple tongues in the garden lapping up
windfall mulberries, glittering insects,
seeds, even bits of stone and metal,
singing their guttural odes in choruses.
No human memory troubles their minds,
you can see it in their eyes, round and
bright as rivets in a pair of bib overalls.
for Bob Philips
I think they must all have been
heavy equipment operators or
veteran farmers in their past lives.
It's the way they walk,
I imagine their lunch-pail swagger,
the irridescent grease and oil stains
on thick cotton work blues,
the metallic sheen of daily blue jeans.
They rolled when they walked
back then, too, favoring distressed
joints and muscles wracked by use.
Still, their eyes did glint and shine
with avian brightness under buzzing
fluorescent tubes and sunlight hung
by chains from ceiling or sky.
Now they wander lawns, heads cocked,
purple tongues in the garden lapping up
windfall mulberries, glittering insects,
seeds, even bits of stone and metal,
singing their guttural odes in choruses.
No human memory troubles their minds,
you can see it in their eyes, round and
bright as rivets in a pair of bib overalls.
This Issue's Featured Artist (and New Writer):Jen Bellefleur
here's a few photographs by Jen Bellefleur...please check out the issue for the interview and the rest...and she has joined our team so stay tuned for the next issue.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Back to Work
after a week off we are back to work on issue #2. with an actual staff of writers working together i'm pretty excited to see the end result. check out next issues's featured artist, Jon Damaschke, at http://jondamaschke.com/
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