Full Of Crow Poetry: January 2010
Bridges are human-made structures that connect the separate realms of the living.
It seemed fitting to open my debut editorial issue with Gail Gray’s The Quintessential Language of Bridges. As this issue emerged and took form, what I found most intriguing, despite the unique voices of each poet, were the connections —the relationships between poems—the appearance of creatures—cats from Spain, puffy pawed dogs, the violated crayfish, and the Cheeto eating x-box player, all coming together in what Lisa Zaran captures so well in her small poem, Bamboo:
“There are instances I find my hands,
rare occasions my voice cries
out from a throat,
I thought was yours
Perhaps, that is what drives poetry—the need to write it, and the need to share it— I am grateful to each writer in this issue, for sharing the ethereal nature of writing and reading—the sublime which Stephen Jarrell Williams depicts in the minimalist treasures of his haiku “light sky air.”
Happy New Year–
MK Chavez
January 2010 Poetry:
Gail Gray: The Quintessential Language Of Bridges
Lisa Zaran: You Should Be So Lucky, Bamboo
Melissa Hansen: cut poem, sad boy, Dream of Dogs
Karl Koweski: the cats of Spain, blue futility, my book collection
Nathan Graziano: Three Scorpion Bowls
Jan Steckel: The Rose Grew Round The Briar, Pretty, Wild, My Jericho, Dance Of The Perseids
Ian C. Smith: Crayfish, Echidna, Robert Rauschenberg Is Dead
Burgess Stanley Needle: ONLY GOOD NEWS, COMMUNITY OF MEN, IT’S NOT DOMESTIC
Grant Bergland: FOR I HAVE PLAYED GUITAR HERO
Sergio Ortiz: Bandit Nights, Progress, In An Hour, Idem, Upon Receiving A Rejection Notice
Stephen Jarrell Williams: (four)
