Four and TwenTy J / V / I · 4/05/2013 · is that you need music to dance. DaMian BaLassone 14....
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JUNE 2013 / VOLUME 6 / ISSUE 6 FOUR AND TWENTY
Transcript of Four and TwenTy J / V / I · 4/05/2013 · is that you need music to dance. DaMian BaLassone 14....
June 2013 / Volume 6 / Issue 6Four and TwenTy
1. BOXERSTracy DaviDson
2. ASKINGBranDon T. roach
3. CURRENCY EXCHANGEMary Louise PeTers
4. ASTRONAUT HADFIELDMarina BLokker
5. LADY KILLERMax MerckenschLager
6. DIVING ON A MOONLIT NIGHTWiLLiaM cuLLen, Jr.
7. MOONLIT LINESsiMon hanson
8. LOVE POEM TO A DEAD COCKROACHLucian MaTTison
9. CERULEAN DREAMSToni garDner
10. NOBLEBranDon T. roach
11. *rehn kovacic
12. NON-ATTACHMENT #3o. o. MehaLLerBMu
13. *DaviD cLarke
14. THE DIFFERENCEDaMian BaLassone
15. NORFOLKLucian MaTTison
16. 4-15shirDog
17. WE’RE FRED AND GINGERseTh crook
18. *reBecca BirD
19. *John han
20. FLIRT LESSONkaren garrison
21. REJUVENATIONcinDy hines
22. CARISABranDon T. roach
23. FLOWERING STREET-JACARANDASMax MerckenschLager
24. LET’S GO ROUND AGAINseTh crook
CONTENTS
Asterisks indicAte untitled poems. underlined text indicAtes A hyperlink.
Author bios follow After poem 24.
Boxers
floating inon the summer breezemy neighbour’s underpantsfrom his broken line
Tracy DaviDson
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asking
Please, she sayscalm downundercurrents and palmswe’re free
BranDon T. roach
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currency exchange
Wandering beyond my time zone’s safety,hunger, the persistent child, whines at all hours. Sleep sulks at my door.
Mary Louise PeTers
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asTronauT haDfieLD
peers through the cupola, earth amazing,patterns and expanses transmitted so we can shift our point of view.
Marina BLokker
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LaDy kiLLer
lippy and lacework the red-back widow stepping out dressed to kill
Max MerckenschLager
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Diving on a MoonLiT nighT
A little shiner struggles in the jellyfish’s tendrils —each of us is caught alone within our thoughts.
WiLLiaM cuLLen, Jr.
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MoonLiT Lines
on the walls across the floor and over the bed with you in stripes our venetian blinds
siMon hanson
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Love PoeM To a DeaD cockroach
As if someone flicked your off switch, your legs folded, six bent akimbo into your belly, buttressing your perfect architecture.
Lucian MaTTison
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ceruLean DreaMs
Coral branches twisttoward ink blot skies and I rememberhow I kissed your salty mermaid lipsin another world.
Toni garDner
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noBLe
Mice march, burrowing into the couch cushion subway ’neath pillow and stop! All aboard!
BranDon T. roach
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The butterflyso tattered —a few flowers yet to enjoy.
rehn kovacic
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non-aTTachMenT #3
a dead fish knowshow to look at thingslike that brown paper bagon the floor by the chair
o. o. MehaLLerBMu
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*
A silent toast with each sip still scanning the room though he knew she didn’t come there anymore.
DaviD cLarke
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The Difference
The difference between you and Iis that you need music to dance.
DaMian BaLassone
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norfoLk
It wipes its nose of yellow pollen, like hopscotch chalk dust washed off the pavement.
Lucian MaTTison
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4-15
pressure cooker bombs flesh rending shrapnel
christ was not the lastto die for our sins
shirDog
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We’re freD anD ginger
Naked, turning our backs to each other, bending over, now we’re dancing cheek to cheek.
seTh crook
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*
I say I’m not pregnant, and she plants crescent kisses:
on my un-home of belly, the barrenness of a dream.
reBecca BirD
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*
flowering dogwoods ball in and out of blossoms
John han
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fLirT Lesson
flirt peach tree,in blossom dress, with raindropsyour frost is memory and mythonly i break my heart
karen garrison
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reJuvenaTion
Planted strawberriesin the weed-filled cat graveyard.I live off the dead.
cinDy hines
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carisa
Beads of sweat mashed into a pool, cross chest collapse, marbled at night cut for ring fingers
BranDon T. roach
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fLoWering sTreeT-JacaranDas
Trimmed treetrunksand houndstooth-patterned paverskiss and wed in God’s cathedral.Does He frown on littering inside His church?
Max MerckenschLager
23
LeT’s go rounD again
We could close the curtains. The kids are playing in the field, your sister gone to the shops. Nothing is urgent.
seTh crook
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Damian Balassone’s poems have appeared in a variety of Australian and international publications. His col-lection Daniel Yammacoona has recently been published by Ginninderra Press and is available for purchase at Readings Bookstores.
ReBecca BiRD is a twenty-one-year-old poet from the UK. She has been published widely in magazines including the Bakery, Endymion, and Envoi. She is currently studying for a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing at De Montfort University.
maRina BlokkeR’s poems have appeared in fillingstation, Room, Pacific Review, dotdotdash, Crannog, and other journals internationally.
DaviD claRke writes by night in Virginia, conveniently forgetting what he does by day.
seth cRook lives in the Hebrides. His poems have frequently appeared over the last two years in print and on-line. His recent poem, set on a lighthouse (and published in Antiphon), has proved popular.
William cullen, JR. is a veteran and works at a nonprofit in Brooklyn, New York. His poetry has appeared in Camroc Press Review, Gulf Stream, Pirene’s Fountain, Spillway, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Word Riot.
tRacy DaviDson lives in Warwickshire, England, and enjoys writing poetry and flash fiction. Her work has ap-
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peared in various publications, including Modern Haiku, Mslexia, Atlas Poetica, Roundyhouse, A Hundred Gourds, and Notes from the Gean.
toni GaRDneR lives in Southern California with her wife and their three dogs. She loves poetry almost as much as she loves them. Her work has appeared in Amaze: The Cinquain Journal and Concise Delight.
kaRen GaRRison is a massage therapist, social-worker, recycled writer, and hopeful. She has had five poems and one short short piece published in various journals.
John J. han, Ph.D. is a professor of English and creative writing at Missouri Baptist University. His poems have appeared in Cave Region Review, Frogpond, The Laurel Review, Simply Haiku, South by Southeast, Taj Mahal Review, and other venues worldwide.
simon hanson lives in rural South Australia. He works in a small school where his students teach him new things everyday.
cinDy hines writes for a living. She has published several dozen poems and is a winner of the 1999 Academy of American Poets Prize at Lewis & Clark College. This is her first published haiku. | marcellathegroom.wordpress.com
Rehn kovacic writes poetry in the American Southwest. His work has appeared in Prune Juice and Issa’s Untidy Hut. When not writing poetry, he advises students in the Math Department at Arizona State University. | @Rehn13
lucian mattison is a first year poetry student in the M.F.A. program at Old Dominion University and he edits poetry for Green Briar Review.
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o.o. mehalleRBmu engages the hearts and minds of stroke and dementia patients twice a week as a hospital volunteer. Trove, the online literary journal of the University of Western Australia, has recently published his poetry.
max meRckenschlaGeR has a solar-powered home on land he’s revegetated with his wife, Jacqui, to reduce their carbon footprint. Check out the progress at www.reedycreekbabblers.com. Max has been published pre-viously in Four and Twenty.
BRanDon t. Roach is using this publication to ask his girlfriend to marry him. Carisa, will you marry me? And for everyone else, check out riflemyheadoff.blogspot.com for more of his words. This is Mr. Roach’s third ap-pearance in Four and Twenty.
maRy louise PeteRs of Wisconsin is a lifelong poet, finding new audiences, delighting in the metaphor of everyday life. She enjoys all forms of creativity: wife, mother, grandmother, national consultant, Courage~Circles facilitator, educator, and writer.
shiRDoG (Shir Haberman) is a native of the Big Apple who moved to the New Hampshire seacoast in 1979 with his wife, Micki, and two children. He has one other poem pending publication at Issa’s Untidy Hut, and can be found most days submitting twitter poetry. | @shirdog1966 | shirdog.blogspot.com
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Four and Twenty is an online poetry journal focused on short form poetry. We specifically seek out fresh and emerging voices to include in the journal. Our guidelines are simple. All poems must be four lines or fewer in length and contain no more than twenty words (hence, Four and Twenty). A new issue of the journal is released the third Tuesday of each month.
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Four and Twenty is an online poetry journal focused on short form poetry. We specifically seek out fresh and emerging voices to include in the journal. Our guidelines are simple. All poems must be four lines or fewer in length and contain no more than twenty words (hence, Four and Twenty). A new issue of the journal is released the third Tuesday of each month.
Publisher & Designer: Vinnie Kinsella Assistant Publisher & Classroom Publishing Coordinator: Kay Tracy Issue Editor: Joanne Koong
FIND | US ONLINE:
Website | 4and20poetry.com
Twitter | twitter.com/4and20poetry
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