Back Issue - February 2006 V1 I2

          the   Poets

	Klyd Watkins "Hickories overhead I saw the warrior for your love again Antlers on his head" CarrieAnn Thunell "The brown scent of coffee perks to the dawn— sh-chuck-chuck-chuck —breaks" Heath Thompson "The fishermen bring in the mist from the sea. The serpent twice wrapped around" Eamonn Stewart "Blue bags soaring in the air, Blue bags mired in the gutter. On every tree and fence" Marissa A. Scott "Dawn comes, in this season, pooled behind white clouds, and fine light is sifted" Margaret A. Robinson "One instant I'm too weak to cut a frozen lime pie the next flat on the linoleum" J.D. Nelson "the library has been turned into a dog food factory & I'm too dull to get a job" Suchoon Mo "dear Cupid are you still shooting an arrow? I am not I use a laser guided gun even a" Albert Huffstickler "I think she's sexy- always half asleep when she serves my morning coffee, voice dreamy" Pat Hegnauer "I shut away old passions— not like a miser, but complacently – in the austere closet" Lauren Finaldi Gurus "At Publix he'll sample Craisins, suck awhile, wince and spew into recycled-paper" Ricky Garni "You know that kind of world. Like any other world, with swing-sets and treehouses, bicycles" Carol Fortino "Relationships may parch Poetry from your soul, Rattle like dry gourds Blowing down" Gram Davies "Wells city calls to me - its lowing, cathedral bells submerged, the pregnant toll of whales" Pat Carrington "Here evening is demarcated in whispers and screams. Hazy land, its borders blurred" Jeffrey Calhoun "Rain pelts skin; I escape to a grassy knoll's green comfort. Above, clouds pause: paradise" John Bryan "Every guy has his own Peculiar nuance If his farts had faces The eyes would be too close" Russell Bittner "I love to coït with you at dawn – not to fuck and not to screw; the one's anathema" Lana Hechtman Ayers "More for myself, for the missing breath, the space it leaves, the listening you were, the talking" Raciel Alonso "It is possible I will never know you. Years have failed since last I had the certainty of mountains—"

	CarrieAnn (CAT) Thunell is an artist, poet, columnist, and interviewer. She is also the editor of the Nisqually Delta Review. When not drawing, writing or publishing her digest, CAT spends her time backcountry camping and photographing nature. Two of her poems may be read in this issue of The Centrifugal Eye. Sara Holt is a multimedia artist with many skills, including painting, publishing, and photography. She says she's moving through the art world at a fast pace and loving every minute of the journey. This is Sara's second appearance in The Centrifugal Eye, and several of her artworks may be found by perusing the Archives section. E.A. Hanninen is an editorial & advertising illustrator, and layout designer working out of Seattle, who sometimes teaches drawing and painting from her art studio. She specializes in miniatures and realism/surrealism. She is a writer, poet, and Editor-in-Chief of The Centrifugal Eye. Much of the art in this issue is of her creation. Ted Fusby is an artist living in Tucson, Arizona, who works primarily in watercolor and colored pencil, and with a variety of subject matter. His art accompanies a poem in this issue of The Centrifugal Eye, written by Carol Fortino, his friend of over 40 years. They both attended the University of California at Berkeley. Dallas J. Bryant is a West Coast photographer and graphics artist, who also writes science fiction and poetry. This is his second appearance in The Centrifugal Eye, and his art shows up on several pages in this issue. His work may also be found while perusing the Archives. Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter and printmaker who lived during the 1500's Reformation period, and who specialized in historical and religious subjects, although he emphasized the aspects of landscape over religion. Altdorfer became one of the leading representatives of the Danube School of Painting. He later became widely admired for his novel use of panoramic landscape employing thousands of minute figures – a new development in "battle scene" painting.

The February issue also featured two essays:

Literary Nude, by Carin Makuz
Poetic License, by Russell Bittner