To Moon or Elsewhere
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...
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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...
Read MoreWild Transitions (Vol. IX Issue 1, Spring 2010)
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.
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Wild Violet is entering a new era with a redesign that incorporates more user interactivity. 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. Explore the transition between seasons with “Cut Grass in Snow,” “In Spring’s Bed” and “January Thaw.” Or traverse the worlds between the living and the dead in stories by Margaret Karmazin, Helen Tzagoloff, and Tony Dvorak, and with a poem by Frank De...
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Poetry Black Cherry – Carol Hamilton To Moon or Elsewhere – Ishita Bhaduri Israeli Morning – Daniel Wilcox Tonight’s The Night We Begin! – Bill Gillard A Neighbor’s Death – Frank De Canio Possibilities – Jeannine Pitas night flowers – Janet Butler The Sanity (1967-1997) – Robert Lietz On The Third Ring – R.S. Carlson Cut Grass in Snow – Michael Lee Johnson My Best Friend’s Mental Illness – Terri Brown-Davidson How to Write a Sonnet – Terri Brown-Davidson Between your two weakest fingers...
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