Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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Three Poems by Michael McAloran

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...in echo's chamber/ knock-knock/ dread stirring/ closed fist/ inebriate of solace tide/ where cleft alone bites the majesty of none/ of the dementia of X./ the black weight of all devoured/ shadowy nocturne of the bleed's escapade/ give or taken/ spent light of the hung's dissolve/ scattered skins scattered by the breeze/ all sight eradicated/ re-birthed/ back then till emptily/ sunk sight/ a butcher's caress/ concrete kisses still the edge till nothing else/ becoming of the sight by which the dream exhales/ all strung together/ iced white/ diseased the words clamour of the hung light/ fleshed abandon in deserted rooms lacking desire or/ hence given to unfold/ dissipated wounds resurfacing unto/ claim claim of some foreign absenteeism/ knock-knock/ no answer/ the door is the wind's promise of all else/ other than this/ as if it could be followed/ as still the shadow's edge collapsed/ tidal immensity of murmurs lacking any merit/ screams that turn to dust as soon as they escape/ walls that peel of the solace nothing/ fleshless/ the black weight of/ no nothing ever/ not a trace/ fragments perhaps lacking traces/ transparent as the film coating the roving eye/ bitten by the dusts of collapse and final/ such is/ ever was...




vii-

...slivers of/ paper thin/ slivers of the/ night's bone orchards claim of the/ semblance of knowing/ where the spoken is of all erased/ velvet the rush of death's parry/ endless sight or light/ what matter/ piss faculty/ less or more or lessened/ ashen flowers smoke in pale light/ given back the taste of bled and after-follow/ till drain of dawn and the echo-chamber of cylindrical/ the gouge bared to the night its teeth ablaze/ bailing else/ as long as/ is/ smears of flesh upon drying canvas and the fractal eye's abscond/ this is the breathe of death the death of breath/ hands burning of the water's edge/ till cleft of anguish/ teeth soldered in genuflect/ (I/ eye)/ scar tissue blends with the sun's absence/ a long shadow of pitch-thin skulk silhouettes the empty sands/ (carries an echo within a jar of wasps/ until departed from)/ the warp bind of ghost limbs melding with the sheen of the skies/ the sky's silence/ in drift of dreamscape/ this or perhaps or/ the colours still claim where words want for all/ the hung light is the garrotte/ the longing for/ bleak char of opiate/ the given syringe of absolute...




ix-

...in an ache of breathe/ lack-echoing/ struck harvest of silences the reclamation of emptily/ flesh non dusts/ often then or of/ yes or not/ no/ clamour ice/ given to the fragrance of/ perfumed the corpse of words/ soil of/ eaten away in the birthing of the absurd/ devoured/ back then till obsolete/ powdered blood and the settled glint in the eye of feel/ unfelt/ the hung light's surrogate is the tears dry as bone/ removal/ sands of the dead socket adrift of the claiming bodily/ the ache of yes or no/ nothing claimed only to claim of the given nothing of the none/ in semblance of being/ ever naught/ erasure of/ some absent solace of breathless disavowal/ subtle as the kiss of some viper aperture/ black blood trickling across denuded skin/desolate haven of non-being/ some subtle absolute/ scarred without longing/ given up to the night sky's empty shadow/ subtle points of absenteeism/ of the foreign of/ the final of/ sung aloft of the cancer flowers of all hope and despair/ all the while the ache of breathe/ give or take a/ the dead children that dwell in circus carousel/ dreaming/ dreaming of/ none's settlement is the open wrist of night/ perfumed the corpse of words/ yes or no what matter/ the pupil widens/ the glint is all...


Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). His work has appeared in various zines and magazines, including ditch, Gobbet Magazine, Ygdrasil, Establishment, Stride Magazine, Underground Books, etc. He has authored a number of chapbooks, including The Gathered Bones, (Calliope Nerve Media), Final Fragments, (Calliope Nerve Media) & Unto Naught, (Erbacce-Press). A full length collection of poems, Attributes, was published by Desperanto in 2011. Lapwing Publications, (Ireland), released a collection of his poems, The Non Herein in 2012. The Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, (U.K), also released an ekphrastic book of text/ art, Machinations, this year. Oneioros Books has also released In Damage Seasons & All Stepped/ Undone in 2013. A further collection Of Dead Silences, was also published this year by Lapwing Publications. He is Poetry Editor for Oneiros Books.



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