“And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!”
- Robert Browning
- Robert Browning
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"Underneath" by Denny E. Marshall
2019 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner
HAIBUN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
AMANDA MOORE
Though she knows better the girl still says nightmere a relic of early language when she also said fleamingos and girled cheese. Nightmere as if to belittle: merely at night, merely a vision and not some charging mare galloping through dreams to tear and divot the fragile terrain of sleep. She holds onto this verbal tic and I my mother’s ear, which hears her steps outside our room past 2 am, her tall 13-year-old body filling the doorframe and a whimper of explanation: nightmere. And so she log rolls between us stiff at first, no longer familiar with the sensation of family bed, sleeping between the two bodies that made hers. Soon she curls toward fetal, her body’s twitches a metronome to better dreams, her mind shifting to work that can’t be done in the waking world and she rolls toward me, slings an arm around my waist and sighs.
How rare these days to
be her comfort—I can’t sleep
from such delight.
HAIBUN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
AMANDA MOORE
Though she knows better the girl still says nightmere a relic of early language when she also said fleamingos and girled cheese. Nightmere as if to belittle: merely at night, merely a vision and not some charging mare galloping through dreams to tear and divot the fragile terrain of sleep. She holds onto this verbal tic and I my mother’s ear, which hears her steps outside our room past 2 am, her tall 13-year-old body filling the doorframe and a whimper of explanation: nightmere. And so she log rolls between us stiff at first, no longer familiar with the sensation of family bed, sleeping between the two bodies that made hers. Soon she curls toward fetal, her body’s twitches a metronome to better dreams, her mind shifting to work that can’t be done in the waking world and she rolls toward me, slings an arm around my waist and sighs.
How rare these days to
be her comfort—I can’t sleep
from such delight.
MAY
NONFICTION & PROSE POETRY
GARDEN INTERLUDE
JORDAN E. FRANKLIN
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The koi are always too fast. By the time the turtles get the floaters in their sights, the koi pluck it from the pond’s face with all the charm of a taxi.
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OR
JEANNINE M. PITAS
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It's a word that reminds you you're not the world. You've never liked it. You prefer the ecstatic frenzy of “and,” the heaping of spaghetti and chocolate pudding and mango onto plates without any fear of stomachache.
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JEANNINE M. PITAS
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It's a word that reminds you you're not the world. You've never liked it. You prefer the ecstatic frenzy of “and,” the heaping of spaghetti and chocolate pudding and mango onto plates without any fear of stomachache.
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2 POEMS
WILLIAM DORESKI
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We will explain that nothing is absolute, not even the furthest reach of the galaxy, and that law enforce peters out beyond the limits of the atmosphere. They will arrest your plastic crucifix for violating the religious clause of the Bill of Rights but allow your turtle to remain with you until a judge hears its case.
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WILLIAM DORESKI
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We will explain that nothing is absolute, not even the furthest reach of the galaxy, and that law enforce peters out beyond the limits of the atmosphere. They will arrest your plastic crucifix for violating the religious clause of the Bill of Rights but allow your turtle to remain with you until a judge hears its case.
.
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LIQUID
CASSIE VAN DOMELEN
(A debut publication!)
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Today I am liquid. Yesterday: stone. Of the two, liquid suits me better. What I’d prefer: air.
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CASSIE VAN DOMELEN
(A debut publication!)
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Today I am liquid. Yesterday: stone. Of the two, liquid suits me better. What I’d prefer: air.
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MAY
FICTION
7 OR 8 THINGS
CHARLOTTE VAN WERVEN
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Sixteen minutes after the conductor entered, during the intro to a piece by Bach she didn’t know,
she walked out of the theatre and ordered a pomegranate gelato, instead.
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MAY HIGHLIGHTED CONTRIBUTORS:
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in various journals. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His new poetry collection is A Black River, A Dark Fall.
Jordan E. Franklin is a Black poet from Brooklyn, NY. An alumna of Brooklyn College, she recently earned her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton. Her work has appeared in the Southampton Review, Breadcrumbs, easy paradise, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize offered by the North American Review, and a finalist of the 2018 Nightjar Poetry Contest. Currently, she is the poetry editor for Suffragette City Zine and is working on her first poetry collection.
Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published. One recent credit is interior art in Third Wednesday, Summer 2018. See more at www.dennymarshall.com.
Amanda Moore's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA, Cream City Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Best New Poets, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and she is the recipient of writing awards from The Writing Salon, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. A high school English teacher, Amanda lives by the beach with her husband and daughter in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. More about her work is available at http://amandapmoore.com. 2019 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner
Jeannine M. Pitas teaches English and Spanish at the University of Dubuque. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, and her first full-length collection, Things Seen and Unseen, is forthcoming from Mosaic Press this year. Her poetry has recently been published in Canthius, Dappled Things, Presence, and Ithaca Lit; her translations have been published in Shenandoah Review, Waxwing, Western Humanities Review and Tupelo Quarterly.
A chef, musician, painter, backpacker, and goat farmer, Cassie Van Domelen studies writing at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon. This is Cassie's first publication, and Eastern Iowa Review is glad to have provided her this forum.
Charlotte Van Werven recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in creative writing, and lives in Salem, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Into the Void, Her Story, Gold Man Review, and Columbia College Literary Review.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in various journals. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His new poetry collection is A Black River, A Dark Fall.
Jordan E. Franklin is a Black poet from Brooklyn, NY. An alumna of Brooklyn College, she recently earned her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton. Her work has appeared in the Southampton Review, Breadcrumbs, easy paradise, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize offered by the North American Review, and a finalist of the 2018 Nightjar Poetry Contest. Currently, she is the poetry editor for Suffragette City Zine and is working on her first poetry collection.
Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published. One recent credit is interior art in Third Wednesday, Summer 2018. See more at www.dennymarshall.com.
Amanda Moore's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA, Cream City Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Best New Poets, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and she is the recipient of writing awards from The Writing Salon, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. A high school English teacher, Amanda lives by the beach with her husband and daughter in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. More about her work is available at http://amandapmoore.com. 2019 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner
Jeannine M. Pitas teaches English and Spanish at the University of Dubuque. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, and her first full-length collection, Things Seen and Unseen, is forthcoming from Mosaic Press this year. Her poetry has recently been published in Canthius, Dappled Things, Presence, and Ithaca Lit; her translations have been published in Shenandoah Review, Waxwing, Western Humanities Review and Tupelo Quarterly.
A chef, musician, painter, backpacker, and goat farmer, Cassie Van Domelen studies writing at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon. This is Cassie's first publication, and Eastern Iowa Review is glad to have provided her this forum.
Charlotte Van Werven recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in creative writing, and lives in Salem, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Into the Void, Her Story, Gold Man Review, and Columbia College Literary Review.
