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Sarah Law lives in London, UK, and is a tutor for the Open University and elsewhere. She has five poetry collections and is widely published online. Her pamphlet My Converted Father, is published by Broken Sleep Books. She edits the online journal Amethyst Review.

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Jazz with Diana

Is a shifting mood of chords
is dry ice evoking the smoke
of a joint in twenties Manhattan,

by night, by streetwise starlight. Is
a touch of freeform syncopation,
the old heart has quavered lately,
(still within the limits of its listening).

Is Miss Lonely Heart, sat at the bar
with her legs crossed and her hands
turning the glass of gimlet in

the low keyed evening, she
makes such a picture there, that he
remembers her silhouette ten years on,

the angle of her limbs and the sheen
of her blouse, and ambition’s
hazy scent. How its neat strength

becomes…

Marissa Glover is currently the Managing Editor for Orange Blossom Review and the Poetry Editor at Barren Press and was nominated in 2018 for a Pushcart Prize by The Lascaux Review for her poem “Some Things Are Decided Before You Are Born.” Marissa’s poetry was recently anthologized in Persona Non Grata by Fly on the Wall Press and published at Likely Red, Ghost City Review, The Coil, and New Verse News, among others. Follow her on Twitter @_MarissaGlover_.

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE CHILDREN GONE?

When I hear the wailing travel down the tracks—an echo of Piggy’s conch blowing across the beach, this monster stealing through the graveyard, grinding through the dead—I think of Mowgli, the boy who ran wild in The Jungle Book half-naked, covered only by a loincloth and liberty. Half-brave, you and I climb the trestle. The metal is cold and not to be trusted, a drunk…

wanted to say briefly and to brush with spotlight that if, giving, to other or to self or to other self, please consider putting some eyes on The Glass Chapbook Series.  being myself a reader and writer, though loosely, though honestly…would use those labels to say that Glass puts out work that is, well, deeply seen.

series:
http://www.glass-poetry.com/chapbooks.html

I’ve tried to say, here and there:

How to Cook a Ghost, Logan February:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/11/28/how-to-cook-a-ghost-poems-logan-february/

The Unbnd Verses, Kwame Opoku-Duku:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/11/05/the-unbnd-verses-poems-kwame-opoku-duku/

As If, Anna Meister:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/17/as-if-poems-anna-meister/

What Is Not Beautiful, Adeeba Shahid Talukder:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/21/what-is-not-beautiful-poems-adeeba-shahid-talukder/

Bad Anatomy, Hannah Cohen:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/25/bad-anatomy-poems-hannah-cohen/

ghost exhibit, Melissa Atkinson Mercer:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/17/ghost-exhibit-poems-melissa-atkinson-mercer/

also, Anthony Frame, editor of Glass, has a wonderful collection, Where Wind Meets Wing:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/08/where-wind-meets-wing-poems-anthony-frame/

pushcart nominations.  a small thing to each, here and not.

Triin Paja
~~~Though Her Knees Touched The Soil
~~published on-site June 19th, 2018
~in volume fourth printed July 2018

Jon Cone
~~~Sleds Made of Bone
~~published on-site March 7th, 2018
~in volume third printed April 2018

Rishitha Shetty
~~~Prayersong
~~published on-site March 15th, 2018
~in volume third printed April 2018

Sophia Naz
~~~Thirty Three Inuit Names of Snow
~~published on-site February 22nd, 2018
~in volume second printed March 2018

Andrew Kozma
~~~Song of the Coming to Terms With It
~~published on-site March 19th, 2018
~in volume third printed April 2018

Cynthia Manick
~~~In My Heaven
~~published on-site October 15th, 2018
~in volume sixth to print December 2018

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Triin Paja

Though Her Knees Touched The Soil

when you find her crying by a radio
tell her about small yellow plums
plucked from small yellow…