Welcome to Lightwood magazine and our Fall 2024 Issue #19. This edition holds memoir, poetry, and reviews for you to enjoy and share with friends. (Lightwoodpress.com)
We creative writers, artists, and makers in this world understand there is positive energy that we can tap into and that we can send out freely to others. Our artwork is part of the earth’s healing process, emerging directly from all of us who inhabit this planet. We also know that our art did not magically appear to us one day, and that it was planted in us and nurtured by those who came before us.
We bring you a quote from the American writer Edith Wharton (1862- 1937):
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”
So, whether we are mentor or pupil; master or disciple; patron or creator, publisher or writer; we each have the important task of helping to define and realize our process of artistic creation. Each of us plays a part in getting our work in its many forms out before the public.
Stay well and allow your creativity to come to the surface either in your solitude , with your support group or with your mentor. Breath in the ideas, then exhale. You’re part of the great creative structure that we continue to build.
Stay well- and happy creation.
Laurence Carr, publisher, Lightwoodpress.com
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Welcome to Lightwood, Fall 2024 Issue #19
Welcome to Lightwood magazine and our Fall 2024 Issue #19. This edition holds
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Poem for Baldwin’s Birthday/ by Zigi Lowenberg
We mourn James Baldwincrave his language, that skewer pulpit of interrogatorysyntax. Writhe and
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That Was Then: The Old Johannesburg: memoir by Alan Sive
When I was a child, I attended synagogue services with my father on Saturday
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Brought and In the Apple Orchard/ 2 poems by Gregory Abels
1.Broughtto this placeon a wooded riseby yearsspent and goneNot able to see themBut
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One Hand Clapping, Paul McCartney and Wings/ music review by Mike Jurkovic
The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon Rides Again One Hand Clapping Paul McCartney and
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Sometimes I Ride the F Train All Night/ poem by Bruce Weber
Sometimes I ride the F line all nightHuddled in a corner seatSandwiches and
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Spotlight on Joseph Cornell: The Man Who Loved Sparrows/ poetry by Tana Miller and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt/ review by Laurence Carr
“Poets Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Tana Miller have reflected upon American artist Joseph
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no matter/ poem by Laurence Carr
no matterthe number of branches and boughs stacked on the stickpile fence it
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Finding Mae/ food memoir by Penny Freel
Squinting into the sun, I would scan the gaggle of sunseekers and swimmers
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Three Bottles/ poem by Cheryl Rice
Three bottles of Kewpie, late night Amazon rampage, too anxious to wait for
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Receding and Specters/ 2 poems by Ken Holland
RECEDINGI’m receding from you A flashing step A blinding scrim of rainI’m. Receding
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Bernadina: My Great-Grandmother’s Journey/ memoir by Lisa Rost Lewis
When the four young Buddelmeyer sisters lay down to sleep on their wadded
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Running the Shawangunk Ridge Years Ago/ poem by Matthew J. Spireng
There were places on the trailsI slowed for the hills, downshiftedas if a
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2 poems from Eighty-One Plus One/ based upon the Tao Te Ching/ by Steven Klepeis
Twenty-Seven Tao is the only glue to hold each other fast within each
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Fear Slopes into Hope/ poem by Lucia Cherciu
Anticipation leans into the fat of satisfaction:steal the thrill of waiting, visualizing the
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Mary K O’Melveny’s : Online Album, If You Want to Go to Heaven Follow a Songbird with artwork by Kent Ambler/ poetry and music reviewed by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
The Artwork in this project is by Kent Ambler. Copyright by the artist.
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