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Reginald Blisterkunst, Ph.D.
Among the Remembered Saints: My Life and Subsequent Death
Pluto Wars

Greg Chandler
"Bee's Tree"
"Local Folk"
"Roland's Feast"
"Pond Story "

Doug Childers
"The Baptism"

Gene Cox
The Sunset Lounge

Clarke Crutchfield
"The Break-In"
"The Canceled Party"
"The Imaginary Bullet"

Jason DeBoer
"The Execution of the Sun"

Deanna Francis Mason
"The Daguerreian Marvel"

Dennis Must
"Boys"
"Star-Crossed"

Charlie Onion
"Halloween"
"Love Among the Jellyfish"
Pluto Wars
"Feast of the Manfestation"

Chris Orlet
"Romantic Comedy"

Daniel Rosenblum
"A Full Donkey"

Deanna Frances Mason
"The Daguerreian Marvel"

Andrew L. Wilson
"Fat Cake and Double Talk"

 

Ash Hand
Jackson Davis

1

The field the colors of corn burning,

yellow and orange and white in rows.

Smoke clings to the brush.

Crows hold in a drift and circle.

 

At the edges of the field the leaves turn gas,

and the odors of locust and alder blow off.

In the center, where the fire started,

a coal in the shape of a hand turns ash.

 

I cannot pick it up, yet show it to you.

 

2

Turning into daylight from a country of dreams,

the vivid watercolors dry

quickly white and black.

I try going back to sleep,

seeing a white field and a furrow,

but wake completely, hot and dry.

 

From the tips above my opened hand,

above my spread-out palm:

a spiders' web I had not planned.

 

I tell you this as well.

 

3

I have dreamed this field in moonlight,

and in shadows woman-shaped, have

called the shadows by your name,

called the field to bloom

and spread itself with relics.

 

4

The leaves turned gas.

You were with me

in that field. Ash—

I couldn't pick it up,

and can't leave it there.

You were with me, and the sun

was steaming in the smoke. Ash

hand, icon of the field recurring—

I send it to you in your sleep.

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About the Author

Born then, not dead yet.
 
Fairly well-read; on occasion somewhat agreeable to talk with.
 
Thinks good country folk are, in fact, God's Chosen People, and thanks his God for Jane.
 
"No other marks or brands recollected," as Lincoln repeated.

 

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