The eyeglasses she needs to notice she has crow’s feet make her face seem less and less her own and more a place for other creatures, crows for instance— the skin near her eyes, shaped by the heft of a crow’s pronged feet when the bird takes off from the surreal picnic. Crow, crone like … Continue reading Passage
by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College. Her poems appeared in New Ohio Review,On the Seawall, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUME, Poetry London, the NYT, PBS NewsHour, upstreet, The Writer’s Almanac, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and Ted Kooser’s column, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her third full-length collection, … Continue reading Sally Bliumis-Dunn
October, 2019 T A B L E of C O N T E N T S POEMS Marjorie Saiser, Advice to Self, Again M. Hlavka, The Island I Believed I Would Not Return to, and Wished to Find Again Shannon Castleton, He Asks Why I Can’t Get My Mind around Happiness Emma DePanise, Bittersweet Clam, … Continue reading CPR Volume 21-3
