Dream of the Garden
A poem by Lance Newman
A rakish falcon sickles through a cloud
of swallows in the poplars. Sun will bless
its meal. This climate calls for nests and bread.
The neighbors grow daisies. Elizabeth,
the sulking daughter, wears a hat and veil.
She lashes apples, plums, and apricots
in a butter churn. She knows she will assail
a tower on the Yangtze, free gazelles, eat
icicles. She will sleep on her back, floating
in water angels spout. The fountain's horse
will nuzzle her ribs, its marble muscles hot
and twitching when it bears her, queenlike, forth.
Here, fat robins land to glean a column
of beetles. A plum drops to the soft lawn.
Winter 2006-2007 Poetry:
AS WINTER COMES by Nancy Abdel Messieh
BOUNDARY STONES #1 & #2 by Alison
Eastley
WHAT HAPPENED by Lakshmi Krishnan
SYLVIA PLATH by Brian Willems
(tanka) by Dorothy McLaughlin
A BAD DAY by Nicholas Messenger
REVOLUTION by Heather Larsen
DIRTY FLOORS by Sam Friedman
JULIA by Michael Internicola
YOU ARE PART OF THIS by A. Thiagarajan
INAUDIBLE GESTURES GROWN ALL TOO COLD
by C. Allen Rearick
HOW LONG THE NIGHT WAS by Gary Charles
Wilkens
DREAM OF THE GARDEN by Lance Newman
SHE by Aimee Cirucci
LAUNDRY BOY'S CHANGE by Julian Haladyn
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