Issue Eight Out Now!
Featuring poems by - Gerard Benson, Richard W. Halperin, Katrina Naomi, Caroline Natzler, Peter Phillips, Jim C. Wilson, Philip Wilson, and others...
From Issue Seven:
Take-off
(after a line by Derek Walcott)
Have you seen the way the day grows
around you, neither perpendicular
nor horizontal -
open to whims, new currents,
the sky inviting banks of cloud,
stubborn vaults of air?
How it keeps you balancing
like that angel on a pinhead,
your feet facing all ways into the poem!
You follow it, you're the wind, a gale,
path escalating - you're sure
the day has you in its sights.
And you welcome it, ready
to be astonished.
Katherine Gallagher, London
