Summer 2011
Cover art
“Purple Onion”
by Elizabeth Slayton
Elizabeth Slayton attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Penn State University and Massachusetts College of Art. She has been painting and exhibiting for more than 30 years, showing in solo and group shows throughout the US and abroad. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections.
Poetry
The Mill
Ten-Year Drought
Cadence
The Heart of a River Never Is Its Own
Red Town #15
Initiation
For Eva, Who I am Not
A Music
Depression as Litany
Saint Hillside
Late Night, in Kilkenny
Clothesline
Lace Factory
Mistaking the Road for Open Sea
Not a Ghazal
Poem
City Cemetery of Spoleto
Blue
Confused Waters 1
Confused Waters 2
A Stranger's Voice on Your Machine Was Sorry
Being Born
Poem of Tender
Inheritance
The Counterpane
Hidden Love
Tibullus in Sparta
Put forth
Purple Loosestrife
A Body by the Wayside Strange
Cells
Uccello
Bottom Dwellers
Physics Lesson
Grace Harbor, Desolation Sound
Prayer
Love Study in Nature
Life Studies: College Love Poems
Heading East
Marriage
Two Horizons
Home
A Song One-Two-Three
Medieval Studies
from Sound Net Sequence
Buchenwald/Beech Forest
from Clangings
from Clangings
Certainties in Texas
Salvage
Tornados
New Toy
And Things Have a Way of Undoing Themselves
Blue Ink
from Alphabets of Desire & Sorrow: A Book of Imaginary Colophons
Alphabet of the Elephant
You Are
Aria I
Mark in Chains
White Phosphorus, Fallujah
On Thin Ice
Story Time
On Consignment
so low we didn't notice
Men in the Club, Not Dancing
Bailey's Rehabbed as Millennium
A Doily