Enter La Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Past the glories of art and color and light
There is a tower
It is dark inside, and the path is difficult Continue reading ““Familiar” by Jill Bronfman”
Category: Issues
Back Issues of Rougarou
Featured Art: Edward Supranowicz
Edward Michael Supranowicz has had artwork and poems published in the US and other countries. Both sides of his family worked in the coalmines and steel mills of Appalachia.
“The Morning After” by K. M. Huber
A hummingbird quivers near the open window—
a brown violetear, Colibri delphinae,
flashes glimpses of its emerald throat, dips
into flowers—buries itself in a trembling bloom
while I answer the phone. Continue reading ““The Morning After” by K. M. Huber”
“One Art” by GTimothy Gordon
… something beyond themselves, beyond words.
-Celan-
There’s a scent that can’t be defined
like breathless painting, music, dance
unplowed yet into sentient fields,
graphic grey-mists hovering water,
that won’t be read or turned to tongue Continue reading ““One Art” by GTimothy Gordon”
“Here, After” by Doris Ferleger
I am writing to tell you
what it was like for me
the days I sat beside you, holding
the phone on speaker Continue reading ““Here, After” by Doris Ferleger”
Featured Art: Janelle Cordero
Janelle Cordero is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in the seventh most hipster city in the U.S. Her writing has been published in dozens of literary journals, including Harpur Palate and The Louisville Review, while her paintings have been featured in venues throughout the Pacific Northwest. Janelle’s most recent poetry and art collection, Woke to Birds, was published in October of 2019 through Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Her debut poetry collection, Two Cups of Tomatoes, was published in 2015, and her chapbook with Black Sand Press was published in April 2018. Janelle published an additional chapbook of poems and paintings with Bottle Cap Press in 2019. Stay connected with Janelle’s work at www.janellecordero.com.
“Not Barcelona” by Jill Bronfman
Gaudí tapped me on the shoulder in the nearly-finished Casa Batlló and asked me if I liked the center atrium. Having been raised in a farmer’s stucco house, I thought I’d say it was beautiful. Artists always seek beauty, right? Before I could remember how to say beautiful in Catalan, he started up again about the blue tile and was it the blue of the ocean or of the sky. And that’s when I knew he meant to find truth, and that beauty was just a house that he saw from the train that went by too fast to see. Continue reading ““Not Barcelona” by Jill Bronfman”
Featured Art: Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods lives in Chappell Hill, Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a book of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. His work has appeared in many journals including The Southern Review, New Orleans Review, and Glimmer Train. His book of photography prompts for writers, From Vision to Text, is forthcoming from Propertius Press. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, is forthcoming from Running Wild Press.
“Flare Stack Eden” by Katherine Hoerth
You can smell it like a snake, from miles away—
this Eden made of benzene, naphthalene
and gasoline. The smokestack garden never
rests; it works through day and night like any
forest does. It turns the blood of earth
into the fuel that makes it sing this dusk
chorus of whistles, bells, and whooshing flame. Continue reading ““Flare Stack Eden” by Katherine Hoerth”
“Synoptic: In Red and Blue” by GTimothy Gordon
The Tale
At Ali’Shan we witness what’s left
of skeletal rare red cypress
Nippon clear-cut an aeon ago. Continue reading ““Synoptic: In Red and Blue” by GTimothy Gordon”