Poetry Only
Spring 2013 · Vol. 35 No. 4
CV2’s annual issue dedicated to poetry - and poetry only. Barry Dempster, Alice Major, Phoebe Wang, Onjana Yawnghwe and 32 others bring you new poetry this spring. This issue also has the winners from the 2012 2-Day Poem Contest.
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- fugitive spring: the river swells unabashedly and / takes what it doesn’t own, pulling the soft / earth into it, ...
- Grief, oranges Never again will you do this: / peel an orange, its rind coming away / in ragged, cloth-lined cups. The globe ...
- Kelly Block Fire A man is cuffed to a / wooden ladder. His body / transfixed as if the old / hag is sitting on his chest. ...
- ode to ee i dream of / ee / / pygmy / stylist / / lord of / small holdings / / he ...
- The Knowing Animals In a wood stirring with elk blood and rorid air, / the invisibles were all ears: all lays and hoofprints. / ...
- Mourning Doves They are wintering over. In the mornings / I’m an eavesdropper to their aubade, / low, woeful murmurings / ...
- Camp 4 No sign of life, not a bird, not a plant. / Only lichens / clothing the sharp stones with grey. / / ...
- Kill Site The tufts of grey fur lie on the spruce-lined path / like a taxidermist’s slough, an afterlife in the works. / ...
- Contest winner Post-Surgery My right arm casted, this poem has little choice / but to wend, flesh-bare and wan through Percocet / dreams ...
- Contest winner The Tribble I approach the panel. Your blazer makes / my eyes wend. Are you there, Catullus? / I need to borrow the ...
- Contest winner Instructions for Peer Evaluation, with Examples Slide 1: You must give a spread of grades. / / Slide 2: You must explain on the reverse the salient ...
- Contest winner To the Woman I Left at the World’s Fair, 1974. There you were, an Eastman Kodak girl in a yellow dress, / Orange-lipped and garrulous, offering to take my ...
- Contest winner How the Starling Came to America: a glosa for P.K. Page It was that teen who made our sky inscribable. / Juliet. I would I were thy bird, she said. The tickle / of ...
- Contest winner Flammable Rabbits of Stockholm What this party needs is the twentieth century: / remember me? This is not a story. A Reuters scoop and grim / ...