My poem "On the Effects of Wind and Rivers" appears in the latest edition of Ocho, Volume 2.
Poets selected for this issue include the Grace Cavalieri (novelist, playwright, and MiPo columnist);Bob Marcacci (teacher); David Need (professor and MiPo columnist); Tom Blessing (editor); John Korn; Kari Edwards (award-winning poet, artist and gender activist); Scott Glassman; Barbara Nightengale; Birdie Jaworski (MiPo Radio pj); and Julie Carter.
To give you an impression of the quality poetry included within the pages, I compiled the first lines of each poem and arranged them into free verse. I'll title it "Random Thoughts" Enjoy.
Random Thoughts
Summer's desert wind has dried the fields
Where the day was a daughter.
I’ve been reading the newspaper.
I’m not always this way when completely falling down the case case.
The afternoon of my mother's wake I bought a Stetson at a pawn shop.
It took three years, but now they thunk a stone.
It just hangs on my tongue, not tumbling
move toward movement.
We study.
There are many ways to tell a story.
The characters looked over the audience.
His wings take up an entire row.
Somebody built a fortress right in the middle of our city.
One brother sees light.
Day reddens for a reason.
I’m not that girl in the flowered car.
What we do gets done to us
Once upon a time long, long ago.
Here is the Index of poets for each line:
1) Michael Parker 2) Grace Cavalieri 3) John Korn 4) Kari Edwards 5) Birdie Jaworski 6) Julie Carter 7) Julie Carter 8) Bob Marcacci 9) Tom Blessing 10) Barbara Nightengale 11) David Need 12) Scott Glassman 13) Karl Parker 14) Barbara Nightengale 15) Karl Parker 16) Barbara Nightengale 17) Karl Parker 18) Barbara Nightengale
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