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Poetry Only
Spring 2010 · Vol. 32 No. 4
With this installment of “Poetry Only”, CV2 is very pleased to present new work by a couple of CV2’s most illustrious alumni: Sylvia Legris, Tim Bowling, and Mary di Michele, as well as work from an amazing array of perhaps less familiar but very awesome poets, including Darren Bifford, Marita Dachsel and Elisabeth de Mariaffi.
online content from this issue
- Cervical Vertebra Variation Syringes crescendo incrementally. Segmental sound drift. Rostrum-gist shifts from leading edge to trailing. Feathers ...
- Cervical Vertebra Variation (2) C2. Axis. Song cycle symphysis. The second cervical vertebra a pivot on which the air changes direction. Rotating ...
- Cervical Vertebra Variation (3) Backward-fold the cervical atlas. The spinal incunabulum articulates the isochronal loral line. Hollow bone ...
- Plague of Interpreters Long after I have left / this room, I am still somewhere. / If not here, there. / If not there, where? / ...
- No Poem for Manitoulin Island You envy nothing. Not the firm riot / of trees casting closer / as boat pulls to shore. Not / shore. Not ...
- Umbrella by the Dumpster at Night O short-stringed kite of the underworld / O flightless black moth / / O crumpled cage of the rainless / ...
- Drive No one will find us in this city — not your valentine, / not the line of dogs he’s chained by the throat. My ...
- London Plane That plane tree caught my eye / when I first walked here. A maple, / the sellers said, wife streaming / ...
- When I Was Good, Still It was a time when I was good to all / the world, a time when all the world still called / me good. The smoke ...
- Contest winner Damage Deposit My Rumi, your Yeats. You back the threadbare furniture out the parlour / door. I don’t help. In the kitchen, ...
- Contest winner Dinner Theatre 1. / / I played Chopin on our grand piano, / languid legato, my mother suffering from radiation ...
- Contest winner Writing, after heavy spring rain These are markers on the dial of the seasons: / Armloads of winter wood & hours / beside the kumquat coals / ...
- Contest winner Station When the piano arrived, suddenly / what had been simply our front room / became the parlour. The old Hamilton ...
- Contest winner Painting in the Tropics, 2009 No fish, this time, no fish. / Find a fresh canvas and rack it up. Then paint, you old fool, paint. / / ...
- Contest winner Proof of an Afterlife In the graveyard at Ottawa, Illinois, / Geiger-counters detect the afterlife. Here / and all across town in ...
