A few trees
in the back yard
suffice to split the sky
into manageable portions
especially at dusk when
the limbs and twigs and frizzy
new growth of the river birch
appear inked on the sky
like a dark nervous system
linking the Four Directions:
Black Tortoise, Blue Dragon,
Red Bird, White Tiger
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Issue 69
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Editor's Note
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POETRY
- Ace Boggess
- David Bottoms
- Melissa Crowe
- Gregory Djanikian
- Allison Donohue
- Susan Grimm
- Scott Hightower
- Henry Kearney, IV
- Cindy King
- Stephen Knauth
- Nina Lindsay
- Marissa Simone McNamara
- Catherine Pond
- Emily Ransdell
- Adam Scheffler
- David Starkey
- Phil Timpane
- Sally Van Doren
- Martha Webster
- Abigail Wender
- Bruce Willard
- Mark Zelman
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FICTION
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ESSAY
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REVIEW
- David Rigsbee reviews Incomplete Strangers
by Robert McNamara
- David Rigsbee reviews Incomplete Strangers
Issue > Poetry
Stephen Knauth
Stephen Knauth is the author of The River I Know You By and Twenty Shadows, both from Four Way Books, and several other collections of poetry. His work has appeared in North American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, FIELD and Washington Square. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.Poetry
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