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Fall 2007
John Amen
Kathy Babcock
Kate Benedict
Jeff Calhoun
Howard Good
Kenneth Gurney
Sarah Jordan
Lynn Levin
Alex Grant
Tim Mayo
PJ Nights
Tim Peeler
Cati Porter
Doug Ramspeck
John Repp
Bill Roberts
RL Swihart
Spencer Troxell
Kelley White
Teresa White
Mike Estabrook
David Jordan
Kelly Mandryk-Layne
Willie Smith
Matthew Rounsville
Back by popular demand:See most pages of poetry for her photos,as well as her artist's page from the summer issue.
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John Repp
Fall 2007
Green Wagon
Nothing more old-fashioned than Gaugin.
Chris in white shorts, driving the green wagon.
Antonio's dogs bark at no on and dusk.
Baseball here: Mann in a green wagon.
No, I don't wish to change the diaper.
For two years I delivered juice and pills in a green wagon.
Sweep the bat down the wall and she'll stomp it.
Pomegranates: easy to eat as ripe green wagons.
She served canned peas, fried chicken, lime sherbet.
"Dog, for the last time: I don't care about the green wagon!"
Climate
A man needs a strong jaw and a straw hat to look good in this
climate.
He thought the swallows swooping the soccer field the chickens at
Walt's farm.
"You smell sweet as poppies," she wept.
Winter, 1936, Barcelona: corpse in a silk jacket.
Batter-dipped anchovies, smoked mussels, tomatoes and bread.
Stray tom dead as an Italian cut black.
Chicanos own cardboard and tin houses in East Texas.
Ribbons. A child's drawing ripped in three places.
Gaudi at work: a boy on a low-tide beach.
After unveiling a casserole, she puzzled over the coin.
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John Repp's most recent collections of poetry include the full-length book GRATITUDE (Cherry Grove, 2005) and the limited-edition chapbooks NO AWAY (Pudding House, 2007) and FEVER (Mayapple Press, 2007). He
lives in Erie, Pennsylvania with his wife, the visual artist KatherineKnupp, and their son, Dylan.
Link to the "bookstore" page on John's website. Links to published work: Web DelSol, Prairie Schooner, Rhino Poetry |
"Sewing Sail" by Donna Dixon
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