Current Issue 3

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ISSUE THREE, JANUARY 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Welcome
The Editors

Katy
Carrie Addington

Poem in Which I Dream of Orishas
Amy Alvarez

Hibiscus: A Creole Lady
E.J. Antonio

The Long Lean
Evening (translation)
Tara Betts

How I Lost the River
Katrina Boudreaux

Ma Tells
Catherine Carter

There’s a Violence to Cutting Flowers
Cathy Linh Che

Kintsugi
Beth Copeland

All Poetry is Addressed to an Eternal Thou
Lea C. Deschenes

Family and Spirit
Kathy Engel

Antaeus
Elaine Feeney

At the Factory Where My Mother Worked
Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Because I want to sleep the sleep of apples – Garcia Lorca
Veronica Golos

Suitcase
Ysabel Y. Gonzalez

women are tired of the ways men bleed part Two
part Nine
Judy Grahn

Letter to My Children about the Mouth
Laurie Ann Guerrero

Tea Ceremony
Kathleen Hellen

Tinta
Leticia Hernández-Linares

January 28
February 20 (translations)
Darla Himeles and Robyn Newkumet

Bush Tea
Nichelle Johnson

Melting Sugar
Odd to Hear Stories about the Fall of Saigon
Patricia Spears Jones

Approximate
Jane Lin

M/other’s Day Blues
Bonnie Rose Marcus

Carne de Los Muertos
Mihaela Moscaliuc

Gramatan 5 & 10
Lynne McEniry

Slippery Red
Deborah Paredez

Letting Down the Hems
Dawn Paul

For a Young Boy I’ve Never Met
Sosha Pinson

Minnesota
Carl Sagan’s Turtleneck Sweater
Kim Roberts

Time
Origin (translations)
Maria Fernanda Snellings

Lady
Homage to my Breasts
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

I Have No Love for Images
Sara Moore Wagner

In Late March Chengdu Blooms
Khaty Xiong