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Israeli Morning

By Daniel Wilcox on Apr 13, 2010 in Poetry | Comments Off

On us the fervent sun set on my 6 weeks of edenic knowing the eastern loss of our new mourning, a disc eclipsed by the Mount of Gilboa (the place of ancient dying– that of Saul, not Ruth) you and I sharing of the M’sheekha, of liberation and rebirth, but our friendship closing, lost in wine and straw in the shallow draw above Kibbutz Sde Nahum ——–a temptation lurked, a warm drink, and a bedded look– thankfully not to take; In the last night for the...

To Moon or Elsewhere

By Ishita Bhaduri on Apr 13, 2010 in Poetry | Comments Off

translated by Soma Roy Let us go to Moon or to Mars * No empty space remains here. On railway-tracks, in between the Gulmohors, Atop coconut trees How did so many skyscrapers spring up? * Even a small piece of land is not available here. Let us leave the grasslands then, and fly into the sky. There we will build a thatched roof – our own dream house. That is better, That is the best. * Despair be kept aside, * The whole sky is there for us. Translator Soma Roy was born in 1959 and brought up at Chandernagore, then earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Burdwan...

Black Cherry

By Carol Hamilton on Apr 13, 2010 in Poetry | Comments Off

Used for jelly and wine, wild cherry syrup for coughs from the bark, the wood red-brown with whitish sapwood, resistant to decay, durable, the small cherries are called drupes, leave yellowed stones. Found in oak hickory woods, not here. I would re-arrange the world this morning, bring the trees walking towards me like Orpheus or MacBeth. Instead the words of those saw-toothed leaves float down about me, and a forest of silent sound swallows the light of here and now. Wild Transitions...

Wild Transitions (Vol. IX Issue 1, Spring 2010)

By Alyce Wilson on Apr 13, 2010 in Issue Archives | 4 comments

As the first issue of the new design, Wild Transitions (Vol. IX Issue 1, Spring 2010) includes works that demonstrate a transition: whether between relationships or places, between worlds or between viewpoints.