A Lit Pick & Publication Notice

In the most recent print issue of Apiary Magazine, you will find one of my pieces entitled "Small Spaces" as well as gallons of other wonderful buzzzzing by poets and writers, bees and non-bees.

Apiary is the latest thing to hit the Philadelphia lit scene and has been well received both locally and nationally.  One of the things I find most remarkable about it is the mixture of diverse voices.  The editorial focus is on the human story, not on the experience of the contributors or the mechanics of writing.  You are as likely to find internationally acclaimed, award-winning poets there as you are to find a first publication by a gifted young person.  There's always something amazing behind an Apiary cover.  I highly recommend.

They also publish an online version, equally enthralling.  I'm not much good at crits and reviews of magazines, so don't take my word for it.  Go read a blog that is updated more often than twice a year.....   seriously, why are you still here?  what are you waiting for?   go!....   now....

Apiary Magazine

irene


his eyes are a well, wide

and deep

the well accuses

nature of dancing

The Common House Is Under Construction!

...in the meantime, enjoy this post-holiday gift:


@rockefeller center I bump into a giant marching band x-mas decoration


electric hats and siren call
as red as any fat-plumed
cardinal this time of year

has landed I believe them!
I believe them max!
have faith my kinky

boot beast my sub-
mariner crunching
nuts and digits

I am twiddling!
(I twiddle!)
I am a painted bowl of ice!

I am a dancing sugar plumb!
my fairy has no wings
my ice has no tongue!

my tin man has no heart
oh take me home take me
home you deity of nails!

you harbinger of wood!
You-uniform Improvement
wind and spin me your direction

so we may hold mass
and get mechanical




© Dan Elman



This post responds to the prompt on One Shoot Sunday
Photo © Adam Dustus