aunties save us lined in crescents the old knowledge losing its shape where can we hide the fire sign the fire edge the fire window covering the road children in the woods bullet holes a mother hands up hide you can’t throw enough under the bus the morning soup the entrance into the wood closed off vandalized yellow sticker tape in the basket don’t ask after it don’t ask before the double lined dirt road the seed and everything after oh aunties how do you fix this where does medicine come from and the rails we found in the woods the magic pathways the hut rising like wings a spore cloud everything hidden I saw it again and again the hollow ship its wasted hull in all directions no matter where you look there is no recipe for this lost butterflies and the crimson toes of youth _______________________________________________ Judith Roitman’s books are Roswell (theenk Books) and No Face: Selected and New Poems (First Intensity Press). Her chapbooks include Provisional (dancing girl press), Slackline (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press), Furnace Mountain (Omerta), Ku: a thumb book (Airfoil Press), and Two: ghazals (Horse Less Press). Most recently she has published in Horse Less Press, Talisman, YEW, Otoliths, Eleven Eleven, Futures Trading, Writing Disorder, E.ratio, Galataea Resurrects, Rogue Agent, december, the tiny, Equalizer, DREGINALD. A chapbook The Boar King is forthcoming from Magnificent Field Press.
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |