3
Alan Summers
pussy willow the phial of expired wishes
empirical owlsthe doors made into sand
one-eyed giants a child calls it
night traina window screamsout of an owl
4
Wattle & Daub
first homethe old pear treegives a leg up
Mortar & Pestle
second childhoodall the pencil marksleave their walls
Cladding
busted moona little boy stuck upstairs
Concrete
next childhoodthe family homegains a flaw
Pine
attic motesthe wasps caughtin window nets
Intimations
5
Atticus
attic timethe boy gainsa superhero
Glass
super 8the rattleof family
Curtain call
last hurrahghosts under lockturn their keys
6
Alegria Imperial
tongue tussle head winds miss the bullseye
on his black cassockhe sweeps off ashesfrom my hand
7
a clay jar ofbubble heads tipped picture of black holes
raccoon and priest and moon referee
born ofa humble bee
overheardsuns hissing
snaggedin a smeuse caught in a torpor
reading the lives of (s)a(i)nts
missing a third line (a series)
9
Amy Cygan
wings partitioned against your angel: Dead Hummingbird
Van Gogh pretending same sunflower painted
17
Cherie Hunter Day
brackish waterI become tidal weeping and forgetful
winter ideal the night more porous
sutraalone in the cagewith an immortal
star dust to scar the integument
white camellias the snarl cut, the click bone up for ransom
18
winter wren often in these lamps of bone every good echo written like a river our fingertips known as tributaries salt lines the welcome chamber crows uploading miscellany to the brave new void bird letters signed with smoke and ash
Bird Letters
21
Dan Schwerin
men my age jump ship in a bottle
manthicket or face the damage to your branches
the branch they have will not break the tree frogs’ song
22
David Boyer
the game where we break each others fingers in spring
Arthur C. Clarke after six thousand years cicada
those selves abandoned walk the dry shores of Mars
half autumn color. Come take my hand in the ghost land and
23
Elmedin Kadric
the little mist I understand is red
ladder rungs
saysRose
you. after. tunneling. awake
still shooting the breeze life buoys on ice
news of snowdropsas his prison cell fillswith directional light
28
Hansha Teki
spring forecasti reverse engineermy ancestry
burning bridges with a flare of wordsin fits of ineffability
spring returni try to live up tomy obituary
29
her myrrhembalms for nowthe murmur
humoursin healthy balancehear the word
her need(indeed only one)she pours over the word
one death endswith a word anointedfor its tomb
the word ‘poor’ alwaysand the word to be no moreamong us
a word dies because it does not dieon her lips
emptiedof itselfthe skin of words
sleep in-turning death’s portal
a disintergrative dearth
32
John Levy
making love the phone ringsover whereeverything is other
branches of this tree unpeopling above the sidewalk
we’re oldI tellthe grass blade
inside the cocoon no behavior yet
33
Joseph Aversano
the night through woods baying
duck feather edge dipped lake
solar flare hairs of a bee
40
moon scent her dead vibrator
insomnia drones in midspace radar
alien to alien the mosquitoes talk in mixed wave lengths
star crusts on dew thistles big bang
prolonged night her nippled eclipses
Sleep between AwakeMalintha Perera
46
Matthew Moffett
bridge ices before road sign icy before the end of time
spring dawn of the city men have come to amputate trees
bare hands numb under winter stars they’re made of
50
Peter Newton
a seed packet called “Quietude”
one stop on her one way to think of it
invisibly growing into my ghost know-how
53
stroked uprightwith invisible handswe dream
looking for truthdiscarded theoriespainted caves
so much to burnchoking on fur in our foreign blue flesh
a mouth without lipsthe wind scrubs the airthe smallest colour
Mouth Without Lips found in Anne Michaels
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Bones 14, November 15th 2017
Graphic works by: J. S. H. Bjerg
Editors:
Aditya BahlMelissa AllenJohannes S. H. Bjerg
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