From 2River, on this night of the super moon, comes the Fall issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Robert Nazarene, Allison Bromage, Mario Duarte, Christien Gholson, Mark Jackley, John Leo, Rita Maria Martinez, Erin Toungate, Meaghan Quinn, Betsy Tighe, and Richard Weaver.
Look this coming Sunday of the super moon for the Fall issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Robert Nazarene, Alison D. Moncrief Bromage, Mario Duarte, Christien Gholson, Mark Jackley, John Leo, Rita Maria Martinez, Erin Pringle-Toungate, Meaghan Quinn, Betsy Fogelman Tighe, and Richard Weaver.
Meanwhile, like pages swirling down like an autumn leaves, here fall two poems from the issue.
Her voice brassy as ever.
The phone is black,
its cord
curled the way they were.
Night falls
in my dream—
a snowy hill, one moment
bright in time
or someplace
else where laughter
sometimes
bursts in little flames.
Diana Ross, I know.
It slipped out of that house she rented up on Chicken Mountain,
padded in bare feet
to the moonlit gap between
the porch and barn and stopped
to wiggle toes
in clover,
and maybe for the first time,
breathed.
To sate your thirst for the upcoming Fall 2015 issue of The 2River View, here’s a short video essay by Shannon Moses, a student last Spring semester in Dr. Richard Long’s Composition II class at STLCC–Meramec.
Strength by Shannon Moses
A prose poem and videoed by Saul Hernandez for Dr. Richard Long’s Poetry Writing class (Spring 2015) at St. Louis Community College–Meramec
Follow the summer sun over to 2River and sit in the shade with new poems by Fang Bu, Anna E. Childs, Lenny DellaRocca, Maria Elting, Marcia Hurlow, William Knudsen, George Moore, Taylor Rickett, Mary Ellen Shaughan, and Corey Smith.
The temp’s building fast to the release of the 19.4 (Summer 2015) issue of 2RV. To up the heat, here’s a poem from the mag by Maria Elting.
I should like to keep the flowers fresh by the windowside
I should like to dry and press them free from the brittle grief of wilting, you below,
So, do not, just yet, go.
A week, a month, next Fall, fifty Falls from now but
a plot and stone grow no green that is more becoming
than the pink Spring of your cheeks this morning, in bed,
me beside
fifty Falls will come, come rushing, come quick
they will come to you so—do not so quickly run from me, while the flowers are fresh
and your dear soft skin going rosen and gold,
announcing a summer so lustfully near.
Visit 2River late next week for the 19.4 (Summer 2015) issue of 2RV, with new poems by Fang Bu, Anna E. Childs, Lenny DellaRocca, Maria Elting, Marcia Hurlow, William Knudsen, George Moore, Taylor Ricket, and Mary Ellen Shaughan. Meanwhile, enjoy this poem from the upcoming issue.
You will survive me
You will hide my memory
In yours, scenery and family
Vacations. On a sad, lonesome,
Whiskey night, you will, in hushed
Tones, whisper my insecurities
To friends whose warm arms will
Calm you. This and your horizontal
Pillow ebb seclusion until the day,
My Baby Pie, when you join the collective
Cosmos and we meander eternity
I’ll receive you and once the last person we knew
Speaks our names for the last time, we’ll
Vaporize along with our era
As we coma together. They’ll never know
Of the winter walk we took tonight in the garden
As the snow fell among the silent trees
Out of the first Monday of spring flows a fresh 2River, with poems by Mark DeFoe, Michelle Acker, Karla Huston, Lois P. Jones, Kevin Kinsella, Laurie MacDiarmid, Robert Manaster, Darren Morris, Jack Powers, Juanita Rey, Ron Riekki; and art by James Deeb.
It’s almost the first weekend of spring and thus time is nearing for a fresh issue of The 2River View. Meanwhile, like an early flower, here’s a teaser by
Won’t You Please Help Tiffany the Tiny Pom-Pom Girl and Little Kevin the Quarterback with Their Expensive Operations
From snapshots taped to a collection jar
they smile. We leave our quarter’s worth of hope
where we buy beer and smokes and gas the car.
On the way to our local friendly bar
their eyes, guileless and devouring, grope
at us from the altar of their Mason jar.
Sunday we barbequed, almost broke par.
Monday—there they are—those desperate folk
who crave our loose change when we gas the car—
Quick trip or Get ‘n Go—can’t let small things mar
our laughs, our profits, our plans—make us choke
on the guilt that seeps from a half-full jar.
Salesperson, plumber, trucker, software star—
no time for sorrow in a dusty jar.
Coming just around the corner to 2River is the 19.3 (Spring 2015) issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Michelle Acker, Mark Defoe, Karla Huston, Lois Jones, Kevin Kinsella, Laurie MacDiarmid, Robert Monaster, Darren Morris, Jack Powers, Juanita Rey, and Ron Riekki; and art by James Deeb.
Muddy Bank 