The Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library
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Lara Dolphin
After “Blessings” by Ronald Wallace
waits.
Some days I find myself
making my bed but
not having to lie in it.
I have a leg to stand on.
I have a penny
to my name.
All around me people
are asking what the country
can do for them,
sweating the small stuff,
Continue reading “Lara Dolphin, Winter 2017”
Something Just Above Nothing
Adam Gunther
There are two birds in the park,
I couldn’t tell you what kind,
so deliberately they sway back and forth on the branches
and they cackle and sing to one another, like a pair of old friends
And I,
I am left wondering:
what makes those birds Continue reading “Adam Gunther, Winter 2017”
The Metamorphosis
John Devers Jr.
Kafkaesque,
I woke up one day
To find I had
A protruding gut
And had aches from sleeping.
23 years of
Fast food, soda, and candy bars
Had finally caught up to me,
Who knew?
So I threw on shorts Continue reading “John Devers Jr., Winter 2017”
Chem Class
Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe
I giggle into my textbook
watching the chem teacher, intending science,
spell out whimsy
in ancient alchemical symbols
that I have recently learned to read.
I hold court
at back of the classroom,
Continue reading “Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe, Winter 2017”
Ballet Class
Nadine Ellsworth-Moran
“Find a spot on the wall,”
she would say in a labored
German accent too heavy
for her frame.
“Let your head lead,
and your body will follow.”
Her words spinning with me.
She claimed to be
a baroness,
and I claimed to be
a dancer.
Your spot is your anchor, Continue reading “Nadine Ellsworth-Moran, Winter 2017”
