..:: CONTENTS ::..

..:: POETRY ::..
Joanne Kyger
  The Distressed Look
  Rock
  Sunday in the Storm Era
  San Francisco March Against War on Iraq January 18, 2003
  "Not In Our Name"
  Look! new moon
Forrest Cole
  Barnacle
  Poem Seller
Stephen Ratcliffe
  from Cloud/Ridge
Claudio Perinot
  Locusts
Jamie Galgana
  Water Cycle
Christopher Arigo
  Catalogued evidence
Virgil Suarez
  Bone Soup / Sopa de Hueso
  In the House of the Birth of Christ
  When Rain Speaks of War
David Krump
  Dominidrowning

..:: PROSE ::..
Han Quek
  Driver
Kenneth Pobo
  Nasturtiums

..:: ART ::..
Wes Tilson
  Cycling Mandalas

..:: ETC ::..
  Contributor's Notes
  Legals
 

..:: ARCHIVES ::..

 

Locusts
Claudio Perinot

 

Hidden impetigo,
copper-green,
heedless of the pain it induced
the ways of bat-eyed gods to them.

But whisperings soon changed
Cysts to seeds, pus to juice,

making fishes of men,
butterflies of locusts.

  

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