Apr 27, 2023 | Art, Ekphrasis, Poetry
Editor’s Note These submissions were submitted as a pair in response to our 2023 ekphrastic initiative. FOOTNOTES FROM LOVE I peel the tangerines for you and me. He cuts the weeds growing in our garden. And by him, I am known. Love is that he sets the table for...
Apr 27, 2023 | Art, Ekphrasis, Poetry
Editor’s Note These pieces were submitted as a pair in response to our 2023 ekphrastic initiative. Prophesy what is this “cruel fate” but a dice rolled by my own palm? i am oedipus and the oracle colliding. I foretold this – swallowing time and sinking heart –...
Apr 27, 2023 | Art, Ekphrasis, Poetry
Editor’s Note These pieces were submitted as a pair in response to our 2023 ekphrastic initiative. Ode to a Cormorant I. The Cormorant’s Song Oh, double-breasted cormorant, form so fair In coastal realms and rivers, you dwell, And as your seraphic motion...
Apr 27, 2023 | Art, Ekphrasis, Fiction
Editor’s Note: These pieces were submitted as a pair in response to our 2023 ekphrastic initiative. GAS GUZZLER John Boone looked dog-tired. Dinky door-chimes announced his entrance. “Empty as hell out here,” he said. “Ain’t nothin’ but road and dust.” Shepherd...
Apr 27, 2023 | Ekphrasis, Poetry
Editor’s Note This submission is in response to artwork from KLIO 2021, “Jovian” by Julius McBride, and is a part of our 2023 ekphrastic initiative. In ancient myths did old Jove reign No more; yet in the sky, I see Not one more worthy of his fame Than Number 5, the...
