SPRING
2024
Brooklyn's
spring,
with
rushes of
wind
(not to
mention
hot air
from
politicians)
has
stepped
hesitatingly
away
from a
winter
most are
happy to
see
depart.
Crocuses
peeked
through
fall's
now
rotten
leaves
first,
pursued by
sparse
forsythia
and the
first
signs of
apple
and
cherry
blossom
buds.
A noisy,
wintry
March
barely
spared
the
early
buds,
temperatures
holding
just
north of
freezing.
But now,
as we
endure
another
week of
light
rain and
gray
skies,
brilliant
forsythia
clusters,
glowing
flowers
on
magnolias,
lots of
yellow
daffodils
and
jonquils,
a little
bit of
green
grass,
cherry
blossoms,
even a
few
roses,
and
increasing
leaf
cover
have
announced
that --
yes! --
the
winter
has left
and
spring
is here.
However,
forecasters
unwilling
to let
go of
the
prior
season
are
suggesting
that
snow may
fall for
half a
day in
the near
future.
I wish
those
snowflakes
well; I
doubt
they'll
last
long
enough
to coat
a single
car's
hood --
far less
than the
impact
of
snowflakes
on
college
and
corporate
administrations.
All of
this is
a lovely
contrast
to the
bleak
and
bloody
political
storms
across
the
world. EPO
hopes to
add a
few
blooms
to
nature's
growing
spring
anthology.
Poems
this
month
come from C.B.
Anderson,
Bruce
Bennett,
Susan
Jarvis
Bryant, Sally
Cook,
Michael
Curtis,
Robert
Darling, Steven Duplij,
Claudia
Gary,
Andrea Kibel,
Gjekë
Marinaj, Arthur
Mortensen,
Brian
Palmer, Jennifer Reeser,
David
Rothman, Joseph
S. Salemi,
Jan
Schreiber, Charles
Southerland,
and Frederick
Turner.
Poetry:
Select
to see
new
and past
postings.
Essays:
Joseph
S. Salemi,
Why
"Creativity"
Is
Choking
Us
Steven
Duplij,
Poephysics;
Time;
Crushedness
Reviews:
See past
reviews
Archives:
Divided
into two
sections,
New and
Old.
Online
Prosody:
As of now
this
will
remain
in the
Old
archives
until
editing
and
rewrite
are
complete.
Contributions
are
by
assignment,
as we do
not have
the
resources
to
manage
online
submissions.
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