40th Anniversary Feature: IMAGE
By LYNN DOMINA BWR Poetry Editor, 1984-1985 Carole says choose an image and so I choose this African elephant. I want to lay my hand behind her massive draping ear, imagining her tenderness. If I could trace my finger along her fine wrinkles or the veins...
40th Anniversary Feature: IN THIS SMALL WORLD & I LEFT THE COMFORT OF THE SEA
By MARK NEELY BWR Poetry Editor, 2000-2001 In this small world In this small world there is a starfish pressed on the beach like a crippled hand. A crumpled baby picture, the handsome strangers of the internet, and Bin Laden’s tiny television. Pine trees...
40th Anniversary Feature: FROM THE LOOKOUT BOOK
By JANET MCADAMS BWR Editor, 1986-1987 If white is the color of mischief, then these white walls, this little house of marble we hide behind willing the man with his notebook to find someone else to follow. We hide, kin to bone, to tuft of fur caught in the...