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On the cover: two headed sister hover slightly above highway
Cover art by: Amalie Atkins
Poetry Only
Spring 2014 · Vol. 36 No. 4
Each poem in CV2’s spring 2014 “Poetry Only” issue is listening deep into the stirred silence of the page. Where once there was emptiness, a poem; where once there was attention, voice: 25 poets careening for your ear! Here reside disturbed ponds, otter-tailed exclamations, interstellar field static, oceanic fault lines, silent synapses, glacial angels, northern ghost-farms, skeleton councils, phantom dollhouses, sub-island descents, and debt, much debt—inherited, historical, environmental—to reconcile.
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- Topiary Between hedgerows your mind’s / fox slows its feet, stills the thistled / fleece it tows behind. / / ...
- The Sorrows of the Ladybird Beetle Her pain is shown / against the head of a match / for scale. / / She vanishes in cold seasons: ...
- Space Space is not neutral. / It depends on who inhabits it / & how. / Here, it’s imbued with impulse. / It ...
- Old Crow The Porcupine caribou took a dive / / / just as the lake disappeared / , they say, / / leaving ...
- Apartment K He used a fire escape to walk out of your life. / / Back inside, the floors are polished, / the heartbreak ...
- 349 It is ivory, or marble — / Some blinding material else, / Some godbone out of the / Shadow of a singularity — ...
- Heaven My father enters heaven, / smiling his big smile, the one that could have signaled pain. / Let’s get you hooked ...
- Waking The clock falls back and the cat / doesn’t give a damn about the hour. / She howls at five and five-ten; she ...
- Religious Studies / / His orange sweater damaged your hearing / it was that loud. Outside the / diesel of Greyhound buses ...
