Poetry – Issue 5 | June 2009
Two Poems by R L Swihart
The Immigrant
The snare can be easily drawn: a frame within a frame, a mauve-pink storybook opening onto a sea of rolling green hills. The newlyweds atop the highest hill, wedding-cake close, gazing—cliché or no—at the sickle moon
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Waiting is impossible: competing narratives and scribbled margins. Cutting a half-inch from the stems, she places the daffodils in a simple vase and pours in the cool water. Within an hour: white stars opening to yellow centers
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Eternal life is death and Egon renders it perfectly: Sleeping Beauty, two claws, and a chessboard blanket
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 5 | June 2009:
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
