ALLISON JOSEPH
“If waves could wash away my sins in life— / all errors, indiscretions, and the blight / of caustic words”
Sonnet
ROBERT W. CRAWFORD
Winner of the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
“The tourists take a snapshot of the sight — / But only if nobody’s sitting there.”
WILLIAM BREEN
“Me sad. Me who love cookie cannot taste / with tongue of felt to cardboard pasted flat.”
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes
“Snow fallen on Northumberland has known / And forgotten every footprint that you made”
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes
“If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said”
TONY BARNESTONE
“A man swings through the open doors on crutches, / his long arms thick with muscle like the Christ”
X. J. KENNEDY
“With thoughtful steps she made sure that no friend / Would catch the drift of what she planned to do”
ANNA EVANS
“I cast you as the main romantic lead / in what I always knew was just a play”
JAMES J. BARNES
“We learn our grief like any human art”
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ
Translation by Rhina P. Espaillat
“Fantasy builds a cell you cannot cheat.”
