Vol. 4 No. 2

Fall 2021

Issue Reader
Aspen Grove
Editor's Note
Quicksilver
The Boulder Problem Speaks to the Free-Soloist
The Chihuly Show (Very Crowded)
Fireflies Disappearing Into Moonlight
Growing
Beached Whale on a Terrace in Old San Juan
Paper Prophesies
A Fleeting Celebration of Joy
Looking at Edward Hopper Paintings with Mark Strand
The Historians
Woman with Pears
Autumnal Equinox
Bees in the Spirea
Because of the Body's Sustained Openness
Poem for Berthe Morisot
Lost and Found
Two Poems about Teeth and Dreams
The Immediacy of Moonlight
Self-Portrait as Steve Rogers
Shhh It’s Gonna Be Ok
Amelia and Chip the Horse at Bridlechase Farms
How Well He Nurtured What He Planned to Pluck
Loving My Earth
So, we wander
After Stuart Davis’ “Ready to Wear”
Stopping by the Woods at Ocean State Job Lot
Any Saint as Patron
July of That Year
All Together
Door i
Door ii
Gift
The Wizard of Words
Hi Five
Glee
How We Grow Up
Unexpected Lifeboat
To The Waltz
A Party of Griefs
My Stomach
Welcome
Autumn Conversation with My 88-Year-Old Father
The Law of Falling Bodies
Sol Solo, Lone Lune
Grilled Cheese
Landed Moon Mushroom
Changing a Battery
The Trees Are Listening

Landed Moon Mushroom

by Alan Bern

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