Shira Dentz

SEASONED

Not being authentically original, moving. I should enjoy my nothing tree

looking at other trees.

I can become as change, or it might just be too laborious. water is no color. it’s period of time. weather getting antsy now. the darkness in sparkles--because color is absent from influenced by other things, then am ponderesa lookslike a sea creature. because it is clear.

with leaves lapping.

Shira Dentz is the author of a book of poems, black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman), nominated for the PEN/Osterweil Award 2011. She is also the author of a chapbook, Leaf Weather (Tilt Press), and another full-length collection, door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press), that is forthcoming. Her poems have appeared in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, and New American Writing, and featured online at The Academy of American Poets, NPR, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She's currently Writer in Residence at The New College of Florida and is Book Review Editor at Drunken Boat.

Masin Persina

OUTDOOR LIFE IN THE DELIGHTFUL WHITE MOUNTAINS

Despite the protest of the better class,
the hanging was public. Crowds came early
by private conveyance. Vendors
had secured concessions for feeding
the throngs with sandwiches, coffee,
peanuts and lemonade. It was more like
a gala picnic than the dispatching
of a soul to eternity. He walked
toward doom with a steady step
while the press asked him, at some length,
of his stay amongst us.
“Did our hospitality fatigue you?”
“Is there anything that impresses you
above all else?”  “Have you formed
an impression of the size of our navy?”
“Are you likely to retard at the chop
off the mouth of life, or will you return?”
It was difficult to say if he was deeply touched
or could not find the right words.
Nonetheless, he was the only man present
who had enough sense to keep silent.
The police finally dispersed the crowds
and the handlers of baggage, who wantonly destroy,
continued to do so at the train station.

Originally from Washington DC, Masin Persina lives and teaches in Oakland, CA.  His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in elimae; Everyday Genius; Forklift, Ohio; Leveler, Sixth Finch, Sycamore Review and elsewhere.

Stephanie Anderson [Part Three]

STORM, SECONDARY PLATE

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Stephanie Anderson is the author of four chapbooks: A Spot A Scheme (forthcoming, Cinematheque Press), The Nightyard (Noemi Press), The Choral Mimeographs (dancing girl press), and In the Particular Particular (New Michigan Press). She edits Projective Industries and is poetry editor for the Chicago Review.

Stephanie Anderson [Part Two]

Storm, Secondary Plate

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Stephanie Anderson is the author of four chapbooks: A Spot A Scheme (forthcoming, Cinematheque Press), The Nightyard (Noemi Press), The Choral Mimeographs (dancing girl press), and In the Particular Particular (New Michigan Press). She edits Projective Industries and is poetry editor for the Chicago Review.

Stephanie Anderson

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Stephanie Anderson is the author of four chapbooks: A Spot A Scheme (forthcoming, Cinematheque Press), The Nightyard (Noemi Press), The Choral Mimeographs (dancing girl press), and In the Particular Particular (New Michigan Press). She edits Projective Industries and is poetry editor for the Chicago Review.