GREY SPARROW, Summer 2011, Issue 9

THE BEST NEW LITERARY JOURNAL OF THE YEAR!
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CONTENTS
 
 
 
INTRODUCTION
 
 
POETRY
 
 
OUR NATIONAL TREASURE
 
“Mr. Bly’s poems name delicate, humble things, and at the same time describe man assuming his existence, beginning over again the test of illusions. At the end of each poem there is silence, without complaint.”
 
                                                                       ―Wallace Fowlie  
 
It's Morning Again
by Robert Bly
 
Toddler at Play
by Australian Painter Joe Cartwright
 
 
 
 
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Moving Day

Museum

[Untitled]

Memory Boxes

by Rebecca Bernard

   

Reasons for Loneliness

Now

The Undoing

Infinitive

by Abigail Carroll

 

Nightwalk Without Her   

      After James Wright

Finish You Off

Doorway, 2am

How the Female Does It
Live in a Street but not with a Street Sweeper

by Christopher Crawford

  

Fourth Row

            picking blueberries in Cross Creek, Florida

Opossum

Tuck It In

Exercise in Transcendentalism

by Didi Gibbs

  

Anima Sola
Aubade for Twenty-Nine
by A’Yara Stein
 

Model Noir

by David Petranker 

accompanies Poet Stein's poem, Anima Sola 

 
Two Poems from “Her Bone Throat: A Ghost Duet with Eugenio Montale’s Ossi di seppia"

            Often I’ve met the evil of life …

            What you knew of me …

by Heidi Hart 

  

Jellyfish Dance

Dream House

Stretched

by Jules Jacob 

  
Conceptus
by Jacob Kaiser 
  
Story of My Life
by Kristin Laurel
  
Open Letter Regarding Limits to the Salutary Affects
of Upper Midwestern Melancholy
by Marc Sheehan
  
Spring Song
Driving to Easter
by Thomas R. Smith
   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
POETRY CONTINUED 
 

 

Virginia Creeper 

by James S. Oppenheim

 
  
 
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