Penumbra by Kate Behrens / Two Rivers Press / 978-1-909747-46-3 / 2019 “Penumbra” is one of those words that I always think I know the meaning of, but then I realize I need to look it up again to make sure. It means “the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut … [Read more...]
6 poems by Michael Begnal
A Press of the (O) Mind 1. Phones dropped in the damp night of leaves a drizzly night picking them up then the signals dropped and trying to pick it up but that eventually they had numerous pictures of themselves online and texted some lines sad to themselves 2. what system underpins? nature … [Read more...]
Poems by Michael S. Begnal
Homage to Yoko Ono 1. Be it ones unjustly reviled who become atavistic avatars bringing out the marvelous mellifluistic magnum opera (opus plural) in all her musicians plumbing the pleistocene ERA air time tight like wrapped in serene subway stations’ aural soup tape loops tide on high yaigh eye yie why why not walk the New York … [Read more...]
