1994 — Vol. 1, No. 1. Inagural issue featuring 22 Western North Carolina poets including Richard Chess, Thomas Rain Crowe, Ann Dunn, Keith Flynn, Katherine Graham, David Hopes, Allan Wolf and others. With an introduction by Rob Neufeld.
How much alike are the wise man and the drunk! The wise man sees the light in the cloud, the one who drinks: the cloud in the light. Each seeing the same thing. How I love the way Han-Shan laughs [...]
A fly screams Past the ear Damned Nuisance or demon Here for the furious Motion of his hand Laughter rips the sky Lilith appears Her skirt a cataract Her drum the tambour His semen leaps And [...]
Deep where the stars fall there is no resistance the light is everlasting the knowing is endless it is there that I stood in front of you naked to the soul but you resisted I held my breath I [...]
The woman with the blue face dressed in white queen for a day takes for her husband this man green in the spring of his fire his body so next to hers he is [...]
all the color comes after sunset like my daughter’s face while she died the car wrapped the elm she met the rear-view mirror turned stone and swelled to twice her size as if horizon’s atmosphere [...]