SUMMER
2024
In a
time of
grievous
loss,
engaging
and
lovely
poetry
continues
to be
written.
One
world
ends and
another
crowd of
worlds
comes
into
being.
It is
ever
thus. We
don't
always
acknowledge
that
fact and it
can be
painful
not to
know
until
the last
moment.
Some of
you knew
Elizabeth
or, as
she was
known as
an
artist,
Liz
Holly.
A vital
presence
in my
life,
she
spent 39
years as
my
spouse.
MS, and
complications from
that
neuromuscular
disease,
took her
away,
piece by
piece,
until in
her last
years
she had
only
good use
of her
right
arm and
hand.
Despite
that,
she
still
painted
every
day.
Her
infectious good
cheer
belied
the
hideous
damage
done by
multiple
sclerosis
and
by being
forced
to
stay in
bed day
after
day --
at best
lifted
to a
power
chair
for a
few
hours a
week.
Finally,
after a
rogue,
and
nearly symptomless,
infection
brought
her
down,
the best
efforts
of ICU,
doctors,
nurses,
and
prayers
could
not save
her.
Sixty-seven
was a
pretty
long
life
once.
My
maternal
grandfather
died at
the same
age.
Nowadays,
things
have
changed,
yes?
Maybe
not so
much as
we
think.
Liz
enjoyed
poetry,
and
occasionally
wrote
affecting
verse.
She
loved
this
publication
and
encouraged
me to
continue
it for
as long
as I
could.
And so
we begin
Summer
of 2024,
a little
late
perhaps,
but
here,
with me
on the
keyboard
and
Liz in
spirit.
Poems
this
month
come from C.B.
Anderson,
Bruce
Bennett,
Susan
Jarvis
Bryant, Sally
Cook,
Robert
Darling,
Claudia
Gary,
Andrea Kibel,
Arthur
Mortensen,
Brian
Palmer,
Jennifer
Reeser, David
Rothman, Joseph
S. Salemi,
Jan
Schreiber, Charles
Southerland,
and Frederick
Turner.
By the
way,
Jennifer
Reeser
has a
new Web
site
abuilding.
See her
bio for
the
link.
.Poetry:
Select
to see
new
and past
postings.
Essays:
Joseph
S.
Salemi,
A
Post-Literate
Age
Frederick
Turner,
The
Pilot of
Hyperbole:
Gjekë
Marinaj,
An
Introduction
By His
English
Translator
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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