Shadow Land. A Poem by David Chorlton

 

The jaguar’s a deity
running away from those who believe in him.
 
He blends in with the mottled light
that falls on rocks,
turns to breath passing through long grass,
and guides himself by memory
 
across territory he knew
when he moved in a different body
 
centuries before
it was settled and mined and divided.
He is so bright now
as he descends from a ridge
 
the land is the shadow he casts.

 
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David Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in Manchester, England, and lived for several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in 1978. Arizona’s landscapes and wildlife have become increasingly important to him and a significant part of his poetry. Meanwhile, he retains an appetite for reading Eugenio Montale, W. S. Merwin, Tomas Tranströmer and many other, often less celebrated, poets.

 
 
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Fruit of Insulin. A Poem by Mark Antony Rossi

die hard
the diet
that turns
urine red
 
watering
grape-stained
bones
of the dead.
 
sugar sweeter
than young women
unwed
 
is far kinder
than reason
spoon-fed
 

 
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Mark Antony Rossi’s poetry, criticism, fiction and photography have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Another Chicago Review, Bareback Magazine, Black Heart Review, Collages & Bricolages, Death Throes, Ethical Spectacle, Gravel, Flash Fiction, Japanophile, On The Rusk, Purple Patch, Scrivener Creative Review, Sentiment Literary Journal, The Sacrificial ,Wild Quarterly and Yellow Chair Review.
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