Ocho # 6 has just been published. My poem "A Difference Between Us" is part of the collection of extraordinary poems that includes works from LORNA DEE CERVANTES, LYN LIFSHIN, DAVID RAPHAEL ISRAEL, DIEGO QUIROS, MICHAEL E. CARLTON, REYES CARDENAS, JOHN KORN, ZACHARY BLESSING, DAN COFFEY, GRACE CAVALIERI, ERICA FABRI, ADAM FIELED, and JESS MENENDEZ.
This twelve page edition includes a wide spectrum of evocative stories: a young woman reminisces the art of shelling pecans, as passed down through a long line of family matriarchs; a woman describes the long summer evenings and the secrets that the women reveal as they congregate on porches; a man accuses a friend of being too cavalier about the nation’s war on terror; a woman runs away from her lover; the poet, as Gov. Arnold, offers an apology for his recent racial remarks, in sonnet form; a poet offers insights on what it might mean to apply the spirit versus the letter of the law; a crowd at a park discover a holy face on a park bench; a poet describes silence; a middle-aged man imagines (in an extraordinary way) how he would react to seeing a past love; the poet relates detailed memories of a large family gathering; the poet reminisces going to the library as a pre-teen on "milky summer evenings;" the poet gives a one-thing-leads-to-another analysis of the effects of rain; the poet questions reality – is that really a change in the wind or has the sensation been fabricated to keep us happy in our embryonic cocoons; the poet relates a nightmarish dream of corpses and how the narrator attempts to tell her boyfriend; a woman counts the scars from forty-plus years of a terrible marriage and of her death; and many more.
Does that pique your interest? I sure hope so. You can purchase OCHO #6 here, at Lulu.com.
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