fall 2018
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageRe: Wards of the Crown Jeremy Luke Hill
Poetic Outcrops poetic extracts: study #8 Sean Howard
Ganapati Brume Yuugen Gulf Adam Day
Tulips for Barbara Ann E. Michael
George Bowering: Scatter-Gun Ken Cathers: the sum Craig Dworkin: The Déjà Vu of Déjà Dit Stephen Bett
The First Treatise The Second Treatise The Third Treatise Yara Farran
Friendly Nuts Carl Joesf Homolka
forbidden music we should probably Conor Barnes
Victims of Captology Kyla Jamieson
Marketplace Road Trip, 1985 Christopher Evans
Ode to the Cockroach my tiny minnow Cara Waterfall
For Murphy Glow Stick Fingers Jade Riordan
Under the Arbor Heather Bourbeau
If You See Something, Say Something James Cagney
Phantom Courses Steven Ray Smith
Courses
Most common is the loop,
a circuit from start to finish.
There is also the out-and-back, outing
to a distance and reverse.
In both, your friends will be exactly
where you left them, tending the ice chest.
Rarer is the point-to-point, start here and end
you don’t know where.
The world’s most storied,
The Boston and The Athens Classic, are these.
The crowds who waive you off will not see you finish.
Every step must be proven anew
to cheering sections that don’t care
how your foregoing fans pepped you up or highballed the sky.
The only job: finish fast.
This passage is also a point-to-point.
Like the canon marathons, only the cadence
of your next footstrike matters and no
devotee will witness more than one.
The only difference: finish slow.