Back Issue - November 2005 V1 I1

                  the   Poets

	Dianne Brooks "Melty chocolate, crispy chips, crunchy popcorn, buttery drips – first one bite," Dallas J. Bryant "The trick is to stand just so with noon sun climbing your thighs; they are tensed" Pandem Buckner "UKEMI this is how it should be done: (we fall in love) SILENT. quiet as the grave" Jeffrey Calhoun "I mark walls with pencil every morning: each tally is a stick figure from Hangman." Donna E. Castlegrant "I vacate my house, knowing more homes will be razed today. Bulldozers stand ready." K. R. Copeland "The earth is a decapitated head and somewhere its body dwells along with the other" Cheryl R. Cowtan "I, Vlad, fly, baker's helper. I (before I was a fly) worked in a kitchen. I (before I was" Louie Crew "Most gay male poets In earlier generations Were trapped In essentially private visions," Simon Lloyd Dunbar "Silence rings, and a machine answers with my voice. My mother is calling down drunk" Trace Estes "The sun slinks into its place: an errant teenager who'd partied all night sneaking up" Anne Higgins "Although the rain ran through a canal in the creases of the windowsill, more of it" Jnana Hodson "This matter of lovers is treacherous when a young wife turns icy and frustrates. Why," Bruce Jewett "Lying in beds miles apart we talk as thunder falls by your home in the hills, down slopes" Jason Lee "She loved to put lines through students' essays, whole paragraphs, events in her recent" Helen Losse "We went to North Platte to watch trains. Up before dawn, we found them at Sutherland," Terry Lowenstein "One wonders what Freud would think of re-occurring pumpkin dreams. Dreams that" Michele L. Majors "No one heard the woman cry, he snatched her air, and she breathed in suffocating," Scott Malby "He who talked with Stalin, shook hands with cancer, never saw the weather clear before" Rachel Mallino "I invite the neighbor over - a photographer who carries his camera strapped to his chest" Christopher Mulrooney "could I but cup it in my palm why then I would have the gift of gab and I would say such" Thomas O'Connell "Days will wait like farmland Beyond our impatient windshield; We forget we have" Kenneth Pobo "Gardens, on display, always at attention. Come, sprites and fairies, it's dark. Overturn" Charles P. Ries "Sitting on the sidewalk outside Sak's Fifth Avenue, he didn't look too crazy. Long gray" Margaret A. Robinson "No Adam, Eve, or snake, not even poison ivy or oak, but this morning I pick a bunch" Anna Seraphimidou "A whiteness in a cranny shadowed from the midday sun, a staring, delicate cranium" Cheryl Snell "If there's thunder, plug your ears. Putter around the house in something loose" Eamonn Stewart "In that weather, wherever we'd go, We should have been accompanied by the Ondes"

	Dallas J. Bryant is a West Coast photographer and graphics artist, who also writes science fiction and poetry. His art appears on several poets’ pages. Edmund Dulac was a widely-hired illustrator in the late 1800's and early 1900's, whose most famous book illustrations were the deliciously muted and exotic plates for The Tales of Scheherezade. E.A. Hanninen is an editorial & advertising illustrator, and layout designer working out of Seattle, who has also taught 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. Sara Holt is a skilled multimedia artist and is involved in painting, publishing, and photography. She's moving through the art world at a fast pace and loving every minute of the journey. Her art appears on several poets’ pages. John Millington studied at UCLA, and numerous places throughout the world; wherever the ship docked, he looked for inspiration. He calls himself "somewhat of a Jack-of-All-Trades", relishing a diverse number of activities, from Scouting, sports and motorcycling, to Art. He currently enjoys his retirement in Historic Yorktown, Va., by running his Card, Comic and Gaming Stores. John designed and executed both The Centrifugal Eye's November cover illustration, and The Eye's universal logo. Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French painter and graphic artist, who became well-known for his symbolic figures. He worked mainly in black and white, and came into popularity when J.K. Huysmans's celebrated novel A Rebours was published in 1884, which mentioned Redon's works.

The November issue also featured four essays:

Never Out of Place, by Dallas J. Bryant
Either Way, the Poetic Sway, by Cheryl R. Cowtan
Doing It, by Kenneth Pobo
Writer As Mountain Climber, by Margaret A. Robinson

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