Winter 2007

Featured Artist:
Theresa Pfarr

Poets:

More artwork by:
Cecilia Ferreira

Margo Solod

Why I Can't Forgive You


It was like going to sleep
in your own familiar room and waking
trapped within the trunk of an ancient oak,
like glancing in a shop window to find
the reflection staring back
is not your own. Like forgetting how to drive
on a freeway in rush hour, picking up a favorite book
to discover the words have changed to Spanish,
to French, to Portuguese. It was like all
these things and more, like being abandoned
on a tram at midnight in Yaroslaval, left
in the company of a woman who spoke no English,
left with her for three days
while you tried to placate an old lover, like
me saying go, it's all right, and you, knowing
it was not, still going.

Bio:

My poetry has been published in more than 70 magazines, most recently VERSAL, POEMELON,CHIRON REVIEW, HEAT CITY REVIEW, THE HORSETHIEF'S JOURNAL, POTOMAC REVIEW. My chapbook OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN won the 1995 KINGMAN PAGE AWARD and was published by NIGHTSHADE PRESS, and my three other chapbooks have been published by TORTILLA PRESS, TALENT HOUSE PRESS and FLYING TURTLE PRESS. My book SOME VERY SOFT DAYS was published in 2005 by mayapple press.

These poems have been published in my book SOME VERY SOFT DAYS but not elsewhere.