The Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library
Monday Morning
E. A. Feliu
Head mired in mud,
swaddled in swamp moss.
Atrazine mouth,
throat itching
like a country mouse.
Tongue slithers in sand.
The day assumes the tone
of a metronome.
In fits and starts,
the week lurches forward
like a musket ball
shunting deer heart.
E.A. Feliu is an author, artist and journalist in San Diego, California. He is the author of Postcards from the Tattooed Man’s Chest.
A Dog’s Life
Mary Kavanagh
My dog likes to play games
Like chase, fetch, and eat the slipper.
There’s another game called “If you go out
Without me I’ll trash your room.” Continue reading “Mary Kavanagh, Winter 2017”
Red Fox
Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad
He called the red fox cunning,
in demeaning tone, critical of the
trustless mammal with limb bones,
as if he were not the huntsman
with no fixed abode, shadowing
untrained prey late evening,
leaving carcass abed early morning;
flesh unsuspecting, martyrs long
for the feel of his brilliant fur,
tiers of red, unsteady shades like
manic waves of fire,
veiling the scope of his skin Continue reading “Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, Winter 2017”
The Irony of a Snag
Changming Yuan
1.
You have long since died
But you will never fall
Standing deadly among leafy growths Continue reading “Changming Yuan, Winter 2017”
Snowstorm
Mary Buchinger
and after begins
the art of subtraction
the digging to find
what was before
cars follow plows
blinking yellow
along temporary-walled
salted paths
but the river practices
addition lying still
folded into blankets
quiet and absorbing
in this world white Continue reading “Mary Buchinger, Winter 2017”
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