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Reginald
Blisterkunst, Ph.D.
Among
the Remembered Saints: My Life and Subsequent Death
Pluto
Wars
Greg
Chandler
"Bee's
Tree"
"Local
Folk"
"Roland's
Feast"
"Pond
Story "
Doug
Childers
"The
Baptism"
Gene
Cox
The
Sunset Lounge
Clarke
Crutchfield
"The
Break-In"
"The
Canceled Party"
"The
Imaginary Bullet"
Jason
DeBoer
"The
Execution of the Sun"
Deanna
Francis Mason
"The
Daguerreian Marvel"
Dennis
Must
"Boys"
"Star-Crossed"
Charlie
Onion
"Halloween"
"Love
Among the Jellyfish"
Pluto
Wars
"Feast
of the Manfestation"
Chris
Orlet
"Romantic
Comedy"
Daniel
Rosenblum
"A
Full Donkey"
Deanna
Frances Mason
"The
Daguerreian Marvel"
Andrew
L. Wilson
"Fat
Cake and Double Talk"
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Ash
Hand
Jackson
Davis
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1
The field the colors of corn burning,
yellow and orange and white in rows.
Smoke clings to the brush.
Crows hold in a drift and circle.
At the edges of the field the leaves
turn gas,
and the odors of locust and alder
blow off.
In the center, where the fire started,
a coal in the shape of a hand turns
ash.
I cannot pick it up, yet show it
to you.
2
Turning into daylight from a country
of dreams,
the vivid watercolors dry
quickly white and black.
I try going back to sleep,
seeing a white field and a furrow,
but wake completely, hot and dry.
From the tips above my opened hand,
above my spread-out palm:
a spiders' web I had not planned.
I tell you this as well.
3
I have dreamed this field in moonlight,
and in shadows woman-shaped, have
called the shadows by your name,
called the field to bloom
and spread itself with relics.
4
The leaves turned gas.
You were with me
in that field. Ash—
I couldn't pick it up,
and can't leave it there.
You were with me, and the sun
was steaming in the smoke. Ash
hand, icon of the field recurring—
I send it to you in your sleep.
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About
the Author
Born then,
not dead yet.
Fairly well-read; on occasion somewhat agreeable to talk
with.
Thinks good country folk are, in fact, God's Chosen
People, and thanks his God for Jane.
"No other marks or brands recollected," as Lincoln
repeated.
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