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Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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The Odes to Nina's Skin
by Deidre Elizabeth

I

There was her arm, my first rose
holding her while she withdrew
into fever and trembling, my prayers

three buckets of water to clean
her kitchen floor while she slept
how she said she'd bone me
and with what we never kissed

how i swallowed it all
without choking
forever changing my ability
to walk with God



II

scream your love for dick
when she takes you from behind
remember the hand was only a test

you won't remember this in the morning
so scream it again to silence the wood
forget about walking, maybe next week

she's planned reentry before you ask
an artist of a craft you've never known
skillfully ensures trembling at her touch

another caterwaul dissolves the i never
she'll ask about seizures when you wake
naked and confused, grateful for cuddling



III

there's blood within
silent lips, wrangling tongue
meadows between them and all
the suns rising; trees without breeze
known only to hair and buckle

bees pressed from flower to hive
a boy breaks branch with branch
all that falls – to eruptions;
potions and arrows against
snail and jellyfish sha men

a black feather quill records,
re-records shadow with light
re-records shadow with light
re-records shadow with light
re-records shadow with light



Deidre Elizabeth has been anthologized in Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind (Unlikely Books), Life According to Goldfish, Volume II—Insight (Goldfish Press), The Velvet Avalanche (Satjah Projects), Washing the Color of Water Golden—A Katrina Relief Anthology (Sun Rising Press), Women Of The Web (Sun Rising Press), This So Called Life (Little Poem Press), and Megaera Volume 1 (Megaera.org). On-line publishing credits include:3 Myna Birds, Poetry Sz—Demysifing Mental Illness, Lily, Red River Review, Poetry Super Highway, Poems Neiderngasse, From East to West, Erosha, Font3Poems, Verse Libre Quarterly, and Megaera. Deidre currently resides in Washington, DC.


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Alex Nodopaka
2011-09-03 11:13:58

Cool poem!
Cool words!
Fuckin' cool subject!
Actually I think it's a masterpiece!