Good morning, evening or afternoon and welcome to Lightwood magazine, Summer Issue #18. We hope the coming summer or winter will be good to you and filled with creativity. This issue features poetry, short fiction. reviews and our Artists in Space series.
In the coming issues we hope to explore new ways of presenting the work of artists and writers. Please contact us with new ideas and directions.
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Stay well and keep your positive energy moving you forward. And when you can, turn your thoughts toward peace. Laurence Carr, Publisher
“A Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937)
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Nautilus and The Oyster Man/ 2 poems by Freida Feldman
NautilusThe chambered labyrinthGoes deeper into darknessRound and round and round,Until the last small
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Arched Eyebrows and Kiva: 2 new chapbooks by David Appelbaum. Reviewed by Laurence Carr
Arched Eyebrows and Kiva (2024): 2 chapbooks by David Appelbaum (published by Cyberwit.net)
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Ceremonies of Planting/ poem by Lucia Cherciu
Judicious in yearning, squinting in the sun, drenched in impatience. The antidote:a blanket,
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Madame Curie’s Notebooks/ poem by Laurence Carr
Madame Curie’s Notebooksare still too radioactiveto touchto readto seethey lie in lead lined
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These Have Been Impossible Seasons/ poem by Bruce Weber
These Have Been Impossible SeasonsHe saidLighting a matchOn the side of the barnThen
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the big splash/ poem by Mike Jurkovic
the big splasheternity’sthe big splash the biggest splashof allbut when you landin this
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Haunts of the Barely Heard/ poem by Ken Holland
You can fairly hear the deepbreath of dawn, its shoulderto the night in
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Once in a Lifetime Remix (after the Talking Heads)/ poem by Mary Beth Hines
We bellowed with Byrne in the shotgun shack—triple-decker, third floor, to be exact.
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Solar Eclipse: Hudson Valley New York 2024/ poem by Mary O’Melveny
At last, people gaze up at day’s vast sky,enamored, amazed by the latest
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Checkout/ poem by Matthew J. Spireng
Sometimes I know the personin the checkout linein front of me and sometimesI
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A Dirge to the Sea: A Fable/ by Anne Celotto
It’s been said; if you want to lose something forever take it to
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News Hair/ poem by Frederic Harris
The newscaster’s hairGives his skullA crisp geometric shapeIt’s streaky blond hueOf grainy oakCommunicatesSolidityGrips
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Artists in Space: Lise Prown, Functional Ceramics
Lise Prown is a potter (and quilter). Her studio is at the Hat
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Welcome to Lightwood Summer Issue #18
Good morning, evening or afternoon and welcome to Lightwood magazine, Summer Issue #18. We
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Wedding China/ poem by Cheryl Rice
Where hay string garlands of glittered pine cones, cards hung over between, there
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Gettysburg and 9/11//. Two Memoir Essays by Gregory Abels
“Barbarism may lie only a small distance beneath the skin of civilization”
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Summer Visit/ poem by Dennis Doherty
Hummingbird, bumble bee, butterfly, grasshopper the katydid, monarchsOn milkweed, yarrow, black-eyed susan, prim
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Desert Crossing/ poem by Emily H. Axelrod
We drove toward a night-black skymy husband and I, crossing the desertwith mesquite,
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