Vol 1 No 1 2007

Meena Alexander Judith ArcanaJason Guriel
Steven HeightonRay HsuTanis MacDonald
Yvonne MurphyAlicia OstrikerRussell Thornton
Priscila Uppal Mark Yakich

Aphrodite

Artemis To Aphrodite

Gaia

Hera

Hera

The old man likes to sleep next to my back
he likes to sleep curled around
my back his left hand embracing me

cupped around my breast even now in our dotage
he gets tired of the other women
but not of me the first of goddesses

he remembers the way the word Time
enfolds us he says
the other women meant nothing

Alicia Ostriker