Issue 12 2008

New poems by Margo Berdeshesvsky, Glover Davis, Afaa M. Weaver, Gregory Orr, Tom Chandler alongside translations of Sreako Kosovel, Vasile Garnet, Rolf Dieter Brinkman, H.E. Sayeh, Cirilo F. Bautista and the art of Ndidi Dike.

Featuring
African Women's Poetry and Chapbook by Li-Young Lee

Standard Checklist for Amateur Mystics

A lamp, so you can read the words on the tablet.
A hand to copy the sentences you find.
A hand for you to rest your head.
Feet to dance the gist of what you find.
A bird to scour your heart.
A bird to help you pronounce the sentences.
Breath to fan the fires nest.
A kiln to test the choice.
A crown to keep underfoot.
Two eyes to see the one in one.
Three to see the two in one.
Seven to see the all in one.
A hand to cross out your name.
A donkey to carry your shit.
A monkey to filch change and food.
A brother to point out the way.
A sister to redeem the refused.
A sister to ransom the straw.
A sister to wake you with kisses
When youve fallen asleep on your opus.

~Li Young Lee