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Balloons

Barefoot the children are running, their fists in the air.
They laugh a ticklish laughter, not the mind’s.
The strings they clutch are as thin as the air at this altitude.
What are they running from? Ask a forget-me-not.
Sunflowers read their passage from west to east.
The flowers are foreground: beyond them, the precipice.
A broom of a wind swishes across a footprint.
That little piggy was hearing, that little piggy was vision....

0, 0: Poems

O[degrees], O[degrees] is where the equator and prime meridian cross, but it is also, in Amit Majmudar's poetic cartography, 'the one True Cross, the rood's wood warped and tacked / pole to pole'. Unlikely intersections lie at the heart of Amit Majmudar's first collection of poetry. Mythical, biblical, political, and scientific allusion thrive side by side, inspiring surprise and wonder.

author: Dr. Amit Majmudar
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0810126257
binding: Hardcover
list price: $42.95 USD
amazon price: $33.00 USD

The Exiles

It sprouts out of him all trunk and no branch.
He’s soil for this tree, his farmer’s tan
The shade of soil turned. No leaf, no fruit,
No shade: Blood at the pith and blood at root.

She lowers as a fog. He makes no fuss.
What once was ichor comes out sticky pus.
Follicles bud and itch—skin irritation
From the fig leaves, probably. Constellations

Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and twin sons. His first book, 0',0', is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books. His poetry appears widely.

Adopting Heroic Dreams

In asbestos gloves and oxygen tank,
I snatched a girl from a smoldering cot
last night, lay her on my shoulder, and thanked
her for coming. “You’ve been through a lot,”
I said. “I can’t wait for you to meet her.
She’s been going nuts to have a sister.”

Dave Engeldrum

Dave Engeldrum has won the HR Hays Poetry Prize from Confrontation (twice) andthe Fiction Prize from Inkwell. He’s also beenpublished in Caesura, Alehouse, New Plains Review, The Southampton Review, Gander Press Review, Ampersand Review, andothers. He lives on the East End of Long Island with his wife and two daughters and teaches at Suffolk Community College and Stony Brook University.

Dark Gardens

For V.W.

Birds
speak
Greek
words,
woe
sings
things
low.
Love
ends.
A dove
descends.

Water
caught her.

Cally Conan-Davies

Cally Conan-Davies is a scholar and teacher who has researched and written widely on D.H. Lawrence and Depth Psychology. She is a practising Bibliotherapist, and runs her own Adult Education business which aims to keep literature and the arts at the heart of community life. Cally lives on the road, by her heart.