Dispatches from the Field

‘UNTITLED (LEGS)’ BY SONJA DE GRAAF ‘I could of course visualize Lolita with hallucinational lucidity; and nursing as I did a tingle on my breastbone at the exact spot her silky top had come level once or twice with my heart; and feeling as I did her warm weight in my lap (so that, in […]

‘LEI IN PALLORE CERCÒ L’ARIA SEGRETA’ (‘SHE IN PALENESS SOUGHT THE SECRET AIR’) BY FABIANO GAGLIANO ‘The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks, All but the youngest. She in paleness sought the secret air, To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day. Down by the river of Adona her soft […]

‘TEMPUS FUGIT 28’ BY ANNA MCNEIL ‘They slept on the abyss without a surge— The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir’d before; The winds were wither’d in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish’d; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the Universe.’ LORD […]

‘AUTUMN BLOOMS’ BY JULIE-ANN SIMPSON ‘O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits […]