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Miller’s Pond
The latest Miller’s Pond print edition is out. Edited by Lexington’s own Dave Cazden and containing my poem “Game Afoot,” what can it be but brilliant?
I joke, of course, but the issue is an excellent one. Dave is a poet of quirky romance and there is the same gentle quirkiness about the poems he has picked for this issue. Not that edginess is completely absent. Take Terry Savoie’s “Glass Eye”
Uncle Harvey, the one with his one
good eye, when Mamma wasn’t looking,
popped out his glass one for us kids to see,
rolled it in his grimy, mechanic’s hands & then…
It took me a little while to learn to love this poem, but I was won over in the end.
I have my favorites of course. There is Philip Rush’s “Negatives”
On a day like this, when the snow
is falling in that half-hearted
English kind of way, the Stroud Road
closed and the path into the woods
drawn like a parting in Brylcreem…
Anis Shivani’s “The Dance of the Magi”
Faulkner sat on the patio, smoking Havana cigars,
kicking up a cloud of haze around his haloed head.
He said, Republicans and Democrats equally irk me.
I’d like to see, for once, the country take a bath.Meanwhile, Hemingway stripped at the dresser mirror,
upstairs in the uninhabited bedroom, and caressed
his firm but large potbelly…
And others. Fleda Brown is the featured poet. Several good Kentucky poets in this issue too — David Rogers, Erin Keane, Marcia Hurlow, and Karen Koegler.
Miller’s Pond is having some troubles. Its publisher, C. J. Houghtaling, is having health problems and Dave Cazden has taken a sabbatical, so they are looking for an interim-editor. As a consequence, ordering information for this issue is not up on the website yet. However, if you’d like a copy, you can contact Dave. Cost is $12 PPD.
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