Characteristic of a transition into autumn, our October issue highlights themes of quiet, contemplation, and solitude. In Janet M. Powers’ “Photographers Say Hello,” a group of photographers are “Up before sunrise, the air chill / eight of us march in silence / lenses shielded from morning dew / heading for a grove of banyan trees.” In Doug Ramspeck’s “A Visitation,” a boy sits, still and soundless, with the body of a dead deer: “The quiet body makes a bed from tall grass. The quiet body / has a visitation of carrion flies. And the boy imagines / that death is made of broken earth and birdcalls, that death / casts out a line to snare each drifting cloud.” And then, in Luci Huhn’s “In the Therapist’s Office, The Blue Rug,” a woman’s mind wanders in therapy as she regards the possibilities of the rug at her feet: “Like looking down into the sea, / all that motion made by moon, until / we cup our hands and bring it to the surface.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 25, Issue 4 includes poems by Maria Castell-Greene, Tara Menon, Randall Watson, Laurinda Lind, Audrey Henderson, Owen Lewis, Becky Kennedy, Paula Brancato, Shaun Holloway, Meredith Davies Hadaway, Laura Amsel, William Welch, Dale Cottingham, Brian Builta, Shuly Cawood, Autumn Newman, and Kristin W. Davis. You’ll also find Kathy Nelson’s review of The Day Gives Us So Many Ways to Eat by Lindsay Wilson.
