Volume 29, Issue 2
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Featuring work byPOETRY Francesca Bell • Bruce Bond • Alex Chertok • Pamela Davis • Bill Edmondson • Andrea England • M. Brett Gaffney • Benjamin Goldberg • Toshiya Kamei • Margaret Mackinnon • Ana Merino • Amanda Newell • William Notter • W.A. Reed • T.J. Sandella • Michael Schmeltzer • Emily Schulten • Joan I. Siegel • Doc Suds • Abigail Warren FICTION Polly Buckingham • Caitlin McGuire • Marvin Shackelford • Kevin Tosca NONFICTION Marcia Aldrich • Erik Anderson • Moira Crone • Bob Hicok • Brandon Lingle • Lee Martin • Marsha McGregor • Ira Sukrungruang • Jill Talbot INTERVIEWS Marcia Aldrich • Bob Hicok • Brandon Lingle BOOK REVIEWS Revising the Storm by Geffrey Davis, Reviewed by Robert Campbell ART Damien Laudier
Benjamin Goldberg
All night I groped
for what you whispered,
fingers edging
the pink shag fringe of a Saint
Vincent DePaul bathrobe.
So much faded
like a picture ransomed
by the light capturing it:
lit candles, red fuse
of Egyptian Goddess
incense, your cork boards
all pinned with scraps.
Sunset settled in our glasses
of five buck red as you unspooled
black thread and sewed
second-hand pasts
into first-rate jackets
and gift-ribboned them
for the outerwear racks
of another thrift store.
That night, the arcade
was cobblestoned to lengths
that didn’t need knowing.
Under streetlights,
alleys and arches
opened to us new cities
within ours: city of snow-
drifts we made angels
in, city of books and dust
and rusty wind-chimes,
city of our reflections
in oval mirrors,
of sky-colored tiles
mosaicked into faces
in a city of lives
you whispered
I’d outlive my need to live.
Damien Laudier is a histologist, entomologist,microscopist, and artist. His photograph on the cover of Zone 3, Volume 29, Issue 2 is a photograph of a male mosquito’s antenna (species: Culex pipiens), by Damien Laudier
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Zone 3 Press sponsors two book competitions: The Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry and The Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Winners receive $1,000 and publication of their book, as well as an invitation to give a joint reading at Austin Peay State University with the contest judge.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Francesca Bell • Bruce Bond • Alex Chertok • Pamela Davis • Bill Edmondson • Andrea England • M. Brett Gaffney • Benjamin Goldberg • Toshiya Kamei • Margaret Mackinnon • Ana Merino • Amanda Newell • William Notter • W.A. Reed • T.J. Sandella • Michael Schmeltzer • Emily Schulten • Joan I. Siegel • Doc Suds • Abigail Warren FICTION Polly Buckingham • Caitlin McGuire • Marvin Shackelford • Kevin Tosca NONFICTION Marcia Aldrich • Erik Anderson • Moira Crone • Bob Hicok • Brandon Lingle • Lee Martin • Marsha McGregor • Ira Sukrungruang • Jill Talbot INTERVIEWS Marcia Aldrich • Bob Hicok • Brandon Lingle BOOK REVIEWS Revising the Storm by Geffrey Davis, Reviewed by Robert Campbell ART Damien Laudier
Benjamin Goldberg
All night I groped
for what you whispered,
fingers edging
the pink shag fringe of a Saint
Vincent DePaul bathrobe.
So much faded
like a picture ransomed
by the light capturing it:
lit candles, red fuse
of Egyptian Goddess
incense, your cork boards
all pinned with scraps.
Sunset settled in our glasses
of five buck red as you unspooled
black thread and sewed
second-hand pasts
into first-rate jackets
and gift-ribboned them
for the outerwear racks
of another thrift store.
That night, the arcade
was cobblestoned to lengths
that didn’t need knowing.
Under streetlights,
alleys and arches
opened to us new cities
within ours: city of snow-
drifts we made angels
in, city of books and dust
and rusty wind-chimes,
city of our reflections
in oval mirrors,
of sky-colored tiles
mosaicked into faces
in a city of lives
you whispered
I’d outlive my need to live.
Damien Laudier is a histologist, entomologist,microscopist, and artist. His photograph on the cover of Zone 3, Volume 29, Issue 2 is a photograph of a male mosquito’s antenna (species: Culex pipiens), by Damien Laudier
