Poetry – Issue 11 | January 2011
Instead of a Hand Feathered by a Fountain Pen
by R L Swihart
Rain turns to sleet and pushes the other visitors inside. On the edge of the mountain eye she looks across to banks of gray snow. The shark washes up on shore
A wink is exchanged for a nod then she arranges for the trip to Kraków where the shark is eased into the Wisła near Wawel. If the remainder of the trip to LA is hard to imagine, imagine a shark gliding along an overpass
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On April 20, 2010, Vladimir Saldi is thinking of her—with a weak but happy flashlight he scans her pages and scant bio—and she has obviously been thinking of him. While automatic hands steer the car through heavy traffic, his eyes lift quickly from the moving grid and see the knifing fin
About the author
R L Swihart lives in Long Beach, California, and teaches high school mathematics in Los Angeles. His work has been published online at The Avatar Review, Blue Fifth Review, The Cafe Review, and Mimesis. He’s married to a wonderful Polish girl, and his favorite travel destination is Italy.
Read our current issue, Issue 11 | January 2011:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
