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Spring 2008
VanBuren's picks:
Antonia Clark
Brad Johnson
Dale McLain
Roger Pfingston
John Anderson
Cristina Baptista
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Michael Brownstein
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Alison Eastley
Brent Fisk
David Fraser
Krikor der Hohannesian
Amy MacLennan
Lisa Markowitz
Damon McLaughlin
Micki Myers
Roger Pfingston
Heather Schimel
Rachel Stewart
Lafayette Wattles
Richard Rippon
Matt Alberhasky
Margaret Fieland
Robert Johnson
Richard Rippon
Willie Smith
Alex Nodopaka
Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Patrick Carrington
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Rachel Stewart
Spring 2008
Cannibalism; See also: Family
A foot in
ankle deep
the whisperings of piranhas
To be eaten alive by love
First course is the fingerprints
Second, the base of the spine
The main course is the heart
and for dessert: marrow, dark and sweet
To survive is to make a path out of
breadcrumbs and silverware dripping with gravy
Knee deep now
the snapping turtles have come
to tap out their song
against calf and heel
It is possible to drown
in the open air
with words picked so carefully
ready to burn until
Seared
The flame turns to smoke
and it's time to dine
Of Chickens and Cows
The crows are picking,
they are making red jam
of a squirrel split open from the belly down
The crows pick harder now
they are picking at the memories, my memories
of a small hand wrapped around pine needles,
of briar scratches, blackberries in a bowl and
the spreading of jam on toast,
fire ants and the way geese nip at ankles
It's the same way people pick out hearts,
how you picked out mine
when you craned your neck away from me
your silver curls looked like cotton
in the dull light that December morning
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Rachel Cathleen Stewart holds a B.A. in English:Creative Writing from
the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her poetry has appeared in
print in The Sequoya Review and the Times of Stone County, and online
at Indie Searchlight, Poems Niederngasse, Unlikely Stories and Slow
Trains Literary Review. |
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