We’ve loved Gary ever since he swooped us up in his Kansas-colored cape. Have a gander at four poems from our latest issue [pdf], and download here — or get the handsome, 100pp. print edition (or both).
Tag: poetry
Carol Hamilton: Waiting
Can’t Friday be here? Why can’t it be here yet? To help us all, Carol Hamilton’s poem “Waiting” from Storm Cellar 3.1, which you can order here.
The Eskimos knew the virtue
of hunkering down, doing nothing.
This is a lesson I long
to learn, being American and full
of need to act, flutter about,
prove something. The old woman
was caught in a blizzard
just a mile from her home.
Sleep was her answer to disorientation.
She drew into herself, bent down, squat,
under a high hunk of ice, kept her rear
warm by sitting on her furry gloves.
Drawing her arms free of sleeves
to cross her breasts, she coiled…[continue reading]
Charlotte F. Otten: Ghouls
It’s still National Poetry Month. Is that even possible? Yes!
Here’s a poem about the real melting of the American pot: “Ghouls” by Charlotte Otten.
As always, get your print copy here, or slip us a cool $.99 for the PDF until the end of April.
Sean Dougherty: two poems
Check out a prose poem from the ever-gritty-ever-glorious Sean Thomas Dougherty: All Beautiful Things Mourn You Who Stood Alone.
Order SC 2.3 as a beautiful print object or a larger-format ebook in glorious extra-color. Deliveries begin as soon as the boxes arrive from the printer.
Read on!
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