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Posted on May 5, 2000 by Bob McCranie
The river remembers nothing about the string of white pebbles that moments ago gleamed from the edge of the bank where I kneel. Nor does the river recall the splash of the child¹s shoe when it slipped from that bank the feel of its… Continue Reading “What the River Knows by Barbara F. Lefcowitz”
Category: 05. May, 2000Tags: Barbara F. Lefcowitz
Posted on February 1, 2000 by Bob McCranie
If you’ve ever seen blue rain please explain to me when and where. I promise I won’t steal so much as a fringe. Tell me if it was closer to a peacock or prairie-grass blue, the blue edge of elegant paper, blue thread inside… Continue Reading “Blue Rain by Barbara F. Lefcowitz”
Category: 04. February, 2000Tags: Barbara F. Lefcowitz
Posted on February 1, 2000 by Bob McCranie
* To burn off the layers of sleep the red poem appears all at once in the scrawl of a dream hastily recalled before its fire dies leaving neither ashes nor a fine black linen rash on the bed-clothes. * An acquired taste, the… Continue Reading “Color Key by Barbara F. Lefcowitz”
Category: 04. February, 2000Tags: Barbara F. Lefcowitz
Posted on February 1, 2000 by Bob McCranie
Long a student of rain I was glad to discover yet another dimension of its many shadows. This time not feathery stripes or braided strands but white-rimmed dark ovals scudding across a page. If I didn’t know they’d been cast by the rain streaming… Continue Reading “rain shadows by Barbara F. Lefcowitz”
Category: 04. February, 2000Tags: Barbara F. Lefcowitz, Pushcart Nominee
Posted on February 1, 2000 by Bob McCranie
For Jackie Robinson, W.B. Yeats, Schubert, Blake (both Eubie & William), Einstein, Christ, my mother & my Uncle Leo. . .and especially all who waved from the train stations in Vilna & Riga & Pinsk, ca. 1900 After the last wave, they walked home… Continue Reading “Those Left Behind by Barbara F. Lefcowitz”
Category: 04. February, 2000Tags: Barbara F. Lefcowitz
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