THE WINGED MOON
DAILY MURDER
Brandon Shane
In summer brush,
the evening sky bleeds
into white clouds,
seeming as if someone
has been stabbed;
tucking their entrails,
a gauze stuffed wound,
the night hails
a triumphant knife,
having saved us
from scorch, deafening
clangor; engines, smoke,
alone we rinse in a gust
known most by owls
and other quiet creatures,
finding solace
where other's hide away;
dogs look out windows
like daydreaming poets,
lonely trails become cities
of another world,
grasshoppers center stage
after the sleeping wren,
and our life is a silhouette,
against the moonlight.
RATTLE CLACK OF MOTHER TONGUE
Jai Michelle Louissen
high stones on the hill, black elder snapping
the valley is breathless in heathered ambit
and wrens with smoke tarred wings that climb it’s music
my skin splinters in the sound
a cloth that catches echoes;
appurtenance of wolf jaw
and transparent reindeer trail
the mother of the needle is the knife
must i bleed to know who i am?
ART THE VISIBLE WORLD by LAURIE KAPLOWITZ
Laurie Kaplowitz uses the human image to explore nature and existence. Her work has been exhibited in commercial galleries in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco, as well as museums such as the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Fogg cArt Museum, the New Bedford Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Currier Gallery of Art. Her work is collected by private individuals and corporations. lauriekaplowitz.net
Brandon Shane is a poet, born in Yokosuka Japan. You can see his work in the Berlin Literary Review, Acropolis Journal, Grim & Gilded, Remington Review, Marbled Sigh, Verdant Journal, and Heimat Review, among many others. He would later graduate from Cal State Long Beach. Find him on Twitter/X @Ruishanewrites
Jai Michelle Louissen is the author of one poetry chapbook, A Vision of Orchids. You will mostly find her on moor tops, unabashedly hugging trees or lounging in birdsong and perhaps even all at once. She is the Editor of The WInged Moon. Instagram and Twitter/X: @bornonadarkmoon