Jeff Harrison

The hart indignant‏

And the dream of the hart is to be Actaeon? Artemis dreamt of the hart when Actaeon stood before Her, and my head should be gossamer with Actaeon!



The Issue of Misnomer‏

Via runnel Bellona, the grave of Archilochus. Misnomer? Hounds' bellies, misnomer? Never, in this rat king of a narrative, is misnomer found. Bellona, yes, Bellona of the runnel, Archilochus, yes, and the wasps whereby his end was not met, no, but graced.



Actaeon's request‏

The hart, Actaeon's request, and the spirit of the well — from design, by hand or by star, placed there alive, maiden — acquiesced.



Eccho

Eccho, attend, the lovèd Muses again

Only plaints hast thou —
thine vilest grief hastes to meet thine rival tongue

Orfeo's fell, and Philomel's —
could'st Eccho's, again unacquainted with the lovèd Muses?

Eccho, attend, the lovèd Muses again



Jeff Harrison has poems in all the issues of Otoliths except the second issue. He has publications from Writers Forum, MAG Press, Persistencia Press, White Sky Books, and Furniture Press. He has e-books from BlazeVOX, xPress(ed), Argotist Ebooks, and Chalk Editions. His poetry has appeared in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II (Meritage Press), The Chained Hay(na)ku Project (Meritage Press), Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Xerography, Moria, NOON: journal of the short poem, Dusie, MiPOesias, EXPLORINGfictions, EOAGH, and elsewhere. He has an interview blog with Allen Bramhall called Antic View.
 
 
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