Jeff Harrison


Up In The Clouds

SCENE 1

VIRGINIA'S FACE: Scowl

VIRGINIA'S FACE: Smile

VIRGINIA'S FACE: Flush

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SCENE 2

VIRGINIA'S FACE: Flush


[ENTER COMPLIANT LIGHTNING]


COMPLIANT LIGHTNING: Flash

VIRGINIA'S FACE: Flush

COMPLIANT LIGHTNING: Flush, then

~

SCENE 3

[ENTER ADAMANT THUNDER]


ADAMANT THUNDER: Boom

VIRGINIA'S MOUTH: Bloom

ADAMANT THUNDER: Boom

~

SCENE 4

VIRGINIA'S FACE & COMPLIANT LIGHTNING: Flush

~

SCENE 5

VIRGINIA'S FACE: Scowl

COMPLIANT LIGHTNING: Flush

~ CURTAIN ~

As the ships sailed on with their cargo of Rosa virginiana

from the caves, satyrs, to the shores,
and in the same cry the shepherds
met the angel, inform these belated barks
that when you were mute you'd write
in roses willingly, though truly you wrote
in dust, here where the dews are thistled

Atlas

I fancy these depths are Space stricken to Her own earth. Dews perish, gone grey and sightless as this ravine, before they Her diadem are; the Lethean nectars capsized from their unhanded amphorae perish, gone grey and sightless as their quondam handlers, before they Tantalus me re-name.

Jeff Harrison has poems in all the issues of Otoliths except the second issue. He has publications from MAG Press, Writers Forum, Persistencia Press, and Furniture Press. He has two e-books at xPress(ed), and one at Blazevox. His poetry has appeared in Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Moria, Nerve Lantern, Xerography, MiPOesias, NOON: journal of the short poem, Big Bridge and elsewhere. He has an interview blog with Allen Bramhall called Antic View.

 
 
 
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