Magazine
Jean Biegun: “On Call”
Karina Castrillo: “I never wanted you to be like us”
John Grey: “Photographs”
Geoffrey Heptonstall: “Floating”
Andrea Horowitz: “Behind Midnight’s Curtain I Recompose Your Birth”
Leonard Kress: “A Night at the Opera”
Laurie Kuntz: “Sooner or Later”
Leigh Parsons: “Still Frozen”
Matthew Pritt: “Joseph F. Seaborn, 1898-1956, Mary B. Seaborn, 1906-“
William Taylor Jr.: “Poem for the New Year”
ONE FOR SORROW, TWO FOR SORROW
The bird that sings a stolen song
leaves echoes of another sound
from a tongue bereft of voice.
‘Pica, pica,’ the magpie cries,
naming its nature in air.
Joytaker, heartbreaker,
what it sees it steals
in glistening desire,
feathered with wildness
to plunder the beauty of things.
The joker in a pack of lies,
it lives on sorrow alone.
About the Author: Geoffrey Heptonstall is the author of a novel, Heaven’s Invention [revised paperback edition Black Wolf, 2017] and a collection of poetry, The Rites of Paradise [Cyberwit 2020].
Image Credit: Australian Magpie courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
CHANGING VIEWING, PASSING
This much is known of art:
in the gallery a book of imaginings
reads the world as shape and colour.
It surely is the wisest counsel
that water is drawn from the well.
All else elaborates the earth-bound
fact of roots found somewhere down
Art has a life of shade and light,
seen to change at every viewing,
like landscapes in their seasons
where life resides at source.
All shall be found within
arabesques of experience,
original but human.
And there begins time passing.
That much is known, but not well.
About the Author: Geoffrey Heptonstall has published a novel, Heaven’s Invention [Black Wolf 2017]. Recent poetry appeared in The Drunken Llama, La Piccioletta Barca and Runcible Spoon.
Image Credit: Claude Monet “Nymphéas” Public Domain
As It Ought To Be 