Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His new poetry chapbook with pictures, titled From Which Place the Morning Rises, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. The original version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, can be found at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. He also has 2 previous chapbooks available at: http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy. Michael has been published in over 23 countries. All of his books are now available on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=michael+lee+johnson. Borders: http://www.borders.com.au/book/lost-american-from-exile-to-freedom/1566571/. Now on You-Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5WJrjqQ18. Follow Michael Lee Johnson On:
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I tossed out diagrams
and went haywire across an ocean
you criss-crossed the map
parleying villages into exhibitions
I took cities and strewed them
over mountains one railroad at a time
we met briefly to find ourselves
sister-brother talking still
JOANNA M. WESTON. Has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty five years. Her middle-reader, ‘Those Blue Shoes', published by Clarity House Press; and poetry, ‘A Summer Father’, published by Frontenac House of Calgary.
A SUMMER FATHER - poetry - Frontenac House
2006 ISBN: 1-89718105-1 $15.95
THOSE BLUE SHOES for ages 7-12
http://www3.telus.net/public/west34/
Editorial Comments: Joanna M. Weston is one of my favorite poets. I suppose poets who write similar styles like each others work. The story telling in just a few lines, coupled with imagery, sets a poem out to travel.
Heavy Brass
By Andrew Baer
I walk with heavy feet down these city streets
Pounding my thoughts down fired brick throats and into cement hands
With fat soles, worn soles,
And I close my eyes, let the wind ballet across my skin
And it’s the closest I’ve come, being so far away
To feeling you again.
Bio: AE Baer is a recent graduate of George Mason University currently teaching the English language in South Korea. He has previously published nonfiction pieces in DC-based think tank political publications.
Editorial Comments: Andrew is new to my circle of poetic friends; he enters with this brief but imagistic poem.
Distilled
Tobi Cogswell
I’m not afraid
I’m angry. I want you to know
I don’t want to be that kind of mother.
Tonight I write.
Look outside,
imagine butterflies,
hear the sound of pencils.
Bio: Tobi Cogswell is a Pushcart nominee and the co-editor of San Pedro River Review. She has three chapbooks and her full-length collection "Poste Restante" was published by Bellowing Ark Press. Her work can be read in Illya's Honey, Penumbra, Spot Lit, Loch Raven Review, Decanto (UK) and others.
Ice Boat
By Joanna M. Weston
wind-shrill
rigging
skim and lift
of violins
blades
G sharp high
ice-crystals
bite
pierce
my half-shut eyes
speed
in treble cold
oh … … swift
thin music
On A River
By Joanna M. Weston
these nights slide like beads
on the rosary of time
colored pearl-soft
each passionate hour moves
past me, afloat in sleep
where dreams fill
with your presence
The Return
By Joanna M. Weston
the wall thins
between my dreams
doors vanish and I go
from one room to another
green furniture in one
purple fish in the next
I flirt with lizards
fly canoes among planets
fit shoes to tigers
cut roads with scissors
turn and hear voices
that call call my name
they pull walls down
open windows to a world
of dancing stars
Bio: Joanna M. Weston. Has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty five years. Her middle-reader, ‘Those Blue Shoes', published by Clarity House Press. And poetry, ‘A Summer Father’, published by Frontenac House of Calgary.
Editorial Comment: I have a fixation with Joanna M. Weston; I love her poetry and I’m addicted.
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