Scapegoat Review Summer 2009




“In summer, the song sings itself.”
William Carlos Williams

Scapegoat’s Summer Issue is here at last. I apologize for the delay. Working on an MFA while hosting salons has been phenomenal. It has kept me busy, though. This coming fall many more projects are in the works, all to do with poetry and getting others involved; as the projects progress, I’ll keep you informed. Upstairs at Erika’s is busier than ever, and I’ve added on Salon Dinners with Poets, which has been a great way for people to engage with poets on a more intimate level. I am delighted with the writers who have contributed to this issue. In another quote by
Williams;

“It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is
cheering, the crowd is laughing
in detail
permanently, seriously
without thought.”

This is what summer is––
a time of joy, of beauty, flowers blooming
gardens bursting, the technicolor’s of sanguine
Saturday’s, teal tomorrow’s, and yesterday’s aureate’s.

Fall is near, colors disappear, becoming muted with melancholy
and despair. Aubergine, mossy green, bittersweet apricot––
these are the colors of the season after summer; before the dormant
frost of winters comes.

Karen Dietrich


Idle Hands

      My sister Linda, her friend Rochelle, and I are in Linda’s bedroom – red shag
carpet cream furniture with fake antique handles, the walls textured, thick with
layers of white paint. Heavy red curtains hide autumn sun, the kind of drapes you
open with a rope and pulley system, a dozen sharp metal hooks we’re forbidden to
touch.
      We’re huddled around a French telephone, its elegant mouthpiece
curved like an ivory horn.
      "Just do it, already,” Linda commands.
      “You do it. It’s your idea,” I say.
      Rochelle laughs through her nose. She’s lying on her side, propped up on one
arm, fingering the three-inch mass of neon jelly bracelets on her wrist. “You’re
scared,” she says.

     “I am not!” I insist. I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor, inspecting the shiny
pennies in my cordovan loafers. My mother taught me that color – cordovan. It
looks like burgundy to me.

    We’re trying to prove a rumor going around our elementary school: if you dial
666 on your telephone, the devil will answer.


    “Not necessarily the devil himself,” Rochelle specifies. “You could get one of
his helpers.” She tugs on her chewing gum until it breaks, snapping her chin, a
sticky string of pale pink dangling.

     “The devil has helpers?” I ask. “Like Santa’s elves?”

     "Sure, something like that," Linda says, giving Rochelle a look, as if to say
she's impossible
mimicking my mother’s expression when I ask too many questions.

      “Okay, but what do I say when he picks up?” I need to know.

      “Just say, sorry, wrong number,” Rochelle says.

      I imagine telephone lines sleeping in the ground, red and yellow and black,
spider-like fingers stretched beneath earth. The devil sits in a leather chair,
somewhere in hell. I grab the receiver from its pearly cradle, and dial.

 


Karen Dietrich’s writing has appeared in Nerve, Tarpaulin Sky, The Henniker Review, and the anthology Who’s Your Mama (Soft Skull Press, 2009). She lives in Pennsylvania.
 

Rusty Barnes

 

On Another Night In Paradise

Helen McGurk rose and prepared a lovely rare roast beef for her husband's dinner. She rubbed in salt and pepper with her bare hands, shelled peas, and boiled some potatoes into paste. Mr. McGurk came through the door around five, said hi honey in his sweet voice, only to find her on the table, legs spread, roast toppled, peas scattered, potatoes in her hair. Drive me like a stolen car, baby, she said.

He appreciated her sudden candor.

 

Rusty has published poems, stories, reviews and essays in many places, most recently Post Road, Small Spiral Notebook, Barn Owl Review, Lit Up. His collection of flash fiction, Breaking it Down, came out last year from Sunnyoutside Press. He cofounded and oversee’s the lit journal Night Train (www.nighttrainmagazine.com) and maintains a webspace at www.rustybarnes.com.

 

Martin Woodside


Commuter


Mismake morning colors (asylum orange, genocide yellow). An old Mexican stands, mishandling tics and gestures, a greased paper bag.

Morning’s motion uncertain, over uneven lines with wagging brown lashes, a bad
case of rosacea, an ankle length skirt. Bodies in motion staying

in motion. Window pane plain mascara, reflected in fissures the arch timbre of
crooked finger on glass—you have no more music.

Greasy ball cap tilted tufts traced with grey, aping Burroughs, a fractured tale about
Meth head neighbors, a border apartment, 200 dollars stolen, Bowie knife in the

gut. Sing canary: thinly rolled loosie tucked behind cabbaged ear. Robert’s all smiles,
yellow tee screams “I CAN’T ALWAYS BE GOOD,” shaking everyone’s hand, asking

the same question twice. Stop no stop high stop low stop. The train’s going slow
back through the dark shadows of the known world.


 

Martin Woodside grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but later defected to sunny California, where he’s spent the last decade writing and teaching. Martin earned an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State and continues to serve an Associate Editor for Poetry International. He writes fiction and poetry, works as a freelance music journalist, and had published five children’s books. Martin’s work has appeared in a number of literary journals including Limestone, Poetry Motel, Thought, Guernica, Pacific Review, The Connecticut River Review, The Hazmat Review, and The Cimarron Review. His poetry chapbook, Stationary Landscapes, came out in 2009 from Pudding House Press.
 

Kiely Sweatt

Dear, in fast response to overly eager:

I am getting rounder in the stomach,
my shoulders and knees
are suspicious.

I am flippant a bit too often,
sometimes a little
dismissive.

Today I put ceramic
heads in the kiln
flipped a switch,
made ginger bread houses,
bought gasoline. 

My son had an argument
got fixed, almost 
shaved my chin.

 

These are times
I don't mind 
attempting to cling
to something with distinction.
As I will admit to lonliness and counter
It with some degree of maturity

  But, miss it less me say these days
when doing budgets and clearing spaces
has taken away the time.
I just hope you won’t judge
as I juggle with some degree of deftness
the day I started with a jacket,
and ended in only a shirt.




Kiely Sweatt has spent a lot of the last 3 years traveling between West Virginia, Dallas, Philadelphia and New York where she obtained her masters in Poetry at the New School. She has been living in Barcelona, Spain almost a year, teaching, translating, and and starting the Poetry Brothel Abroad Project. http://poetrybrothelbarcelona.blogspot.com

 

Joe Millar


Eg*OS

Wall Street Confidentia
l

I gave up Nancy my wife for the private and inauspicious love of a komodo dragon. I
gave up my vegan roots for Xanax, Fox, Ugandan beef. I traded Pabst Blue for Blue
Tooth, my nipple ring for a ranch in Naples. I learned everything has a price, especially
money. I gave up money. That is, I gave up paper. I gave up the cause for the good fight.
I gave up tax reform for motion sickness, welfare justice for the military-industrial
complex. I encouraged bootstraps. I still fry my own bologna. I once sold very very high.
I shorted LEH to EKG as they tore through ARMs like RPGs. I was finding Sensex less
than Nifty so I fabricated futures, hedged my bets. I huddled, negotiated, undercut my
mentors, missed a catch, caught a block and punted, wept openly and showered with the
team. We agreed it was a job for nobler men. We agreed it was a job for cannibals. We
ushered each other dripping through the corridors, patenting our bruises. We were our
parents' helioscopic somethings, peripherally viewed; a poorly inked Woodstock
woodcut, the tambourine and the sound of the tambourine snapping. Sometimes I still
blush when people ask for directions. Sometimes I still worry to think.



Joe Millar’s first collection of poems, Autobiomythography & Gallery, was named “Best First Book” of the year by coldfront magazine. He grew up along the Space Coast of Florida, attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and now lives in New York City, where he acts as co-Director of Go North gallery.

June Coleman Magrab


Pop-Pop Sectioning Grapefruit and Doing Cantaloupe
                                        For my father, John Coleman 1902-1987

I

It is 1924; my father is twenty-two.
My grandfather never speaks directly to him, so John does not hear
I want you to stay. He leaves Europe, his father and his piano behind
for Chicago where he studies music and languages.
Dead mother, mother who hugged him, loved him, told him so—
did not wash her hands after touching the cat, laughed and sang out of tune,
what was there left?

John works his way across the Atlantic and back—
four round trips before my grandfather dies.
Works as a pantry-boy, halving grapefruit, trimming each
small section, cutting out patterns for a quilt, hands bloodied,
vomiting, all the way.

II

I am sixty-five, my daughter’s visiting, and we are drinking
a very bad hazelnut latte I swiped from a bed and breakfast
a few months ago. It’s terrible. We giggle. We chat.
She reminds me of cantaloupe, says Pop-Pop cut cantaloupe every morning
whenever she visited. Marie has a good memory, she’s thirty-eight. Cantaloupe.
I only remember grapefruit. I do not ask her if she can cut grapefruit,
sections, delicately as a rose petal wafts in a gentle breeze.
Of course she can. She’s a real cook. I ask her about cantaloupe,
ask her to paint me a picture of her grandfather halving them,
removing seeds, tell me more so I can catch up my mind to hers, see
a photograph of him delighting my child, the way he delighted me
each day during grapefruit season.

 

Because One Is A Member Of The Underprivileged

A man sits in a submarine
Shop in Maine picking
His nose. I think the cut-
Lets, deep fried veal,
Are made of chopped
Rat, and I greedily feed
Them to my husband.
One would think
An ordinary nose picker
Would be easy to swallow.

Another booth boasts
A Mafia type with wife
And kid. Wife blots her
Pizza like weirdoes do
In whole food places.
The kid is dancing
The Mambo while the Don
Picks nits from his chin.
It’s always like this
In Naples, every summer,
When I escape the heat
And head north for clean
Living. The kid takes over
The place, screaming and
Ordering (people around),
Practice for the future, as he
Crawls back to his mother’s
Tit and whines for more.
An allegory between
The mob and a group
Of hippies, strange.
But then, I think Manson,
Manson, Manson and remember
That not all bearded men are
Christ. Nose picker is still
At it, my husband finished
His rat burger, the kid, he’s back
Doing the Mambo while his mother
Blots her cheese and Don
Picks nits from his chin.

 



June Coleman Magrab has published in Anthologies: The Other Side of Sorrow (Hoblebush Books, 2006) and The Breath of Parted Lips, Volume II (CalvanKerry Press, 2004) as well as various journals: Calapooya Collage, Caprice, New York Quarterly, Stirring, etc. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, was awarded a Vermont Studio Center grant and has been a Frost Place Participant.

Sara Lefsyk


dearest figments,

how’s life up north in the mind country, yes
you are very much like figments and i

often feel superimposed here

spending most days in three states:
seeming activity streams forth forever

often we place time in glass containers to watch it feed off itself, grow, mutate, multiply, et

cetera all the while worms go on digesting earth beneath our feet, roots

a colony of petri dishes, things of the senses, the lovely here, what its form is:
slugs hanging around the compost pile today

all the while our livers, lungs i said what’s distance

no i mean i don’t know what it is everywhere
is here even there nowhere i looked

could i find what i was looking for what i was looking for was everywhere what i was, looking,
for was, everywhere, what was i looking for, yes

this day was a dervish

at the same time i found my          buried in an atoll
i was bandaging my fingers geographically speaking

and life that constant kaleidoscope

went on ahead traveling right angles away from here
while i stayed behind laughing forehead to foreground, palms and lips

because i am trying to grow my heart
it’s so tiny

ants are tiny too

no, not compared to a poppy seed
the earth eats banana peels and corn husks

coffee grinds and drier lint, itself, i, left outside outside in the rain

all night

was thinking of cytoplasm
it’s good to think of cytoplasm
even if cytoplasm doesn’t often think of us

ants too

all the while paramecium…

(are all these mosquitoes yours i can’t bring myself to kill even one) and
why do so many people keep their good solitude in a tank

i mean to ask them
is there enough air in there but then

          a wave in the mindstuff:
          this soil smells like India my little eyes have a body and

          when i remove my shoes
          i have feet

toes, p.s. i too
love wetlands and dead trees, nighttime

always, always:
always


Sara Lefsyk currently lives Somewhere in Massachusetts
where she
is often busy reorienting material reality.
 

Mary-Catherine Jones

2-7-70

what you left behind


with baby teeth; wasn’t


in it—one for each of us;


five-month bump; wasn’t


another woman. what you left


but a was, an is.


an is. a button

 


wasn’t a purse, brimming


a phone number with three twos


wasn’t a coat that hid your


a key you gave me to


behind wasn’t a wasn’t


an am,


unfound.

 

 

mary-catherine jones is a freelance writer based in New York. In the advertising world she has won some awards for brands like Target, Aveda and Southwest Airlines. She has work in the forthcoming Poetry International as well as an essay currently online at Web Del Sol Review of Books. She lives in New Hampshire.



Joanna Fuhrman

The Writer’s Life

To be a writer is to apply lotion to one’s forehead

to sing untranslatable lullabies to Brussels sprouts.

Writing in sunlight is a good way to get a tan.

Be kind to the commas, 

like you they would rather be curled up in fetal position.

If you plan to write about sex, 
make sure you’ve had it, 

at least once.

If you plan to write about politics, 
make sure your poem

is softer than an eyelid, 
louder than a nuclear volcano.



The Joke

The last joke in the world finds itself in the womb of a pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears. “Knock.
Knock.” It bangs against the uterus walls. No one answers. Terrible silence rules. The video
feed from the Second World War is projected on the outside of a wiggling fallopian tube. 

Bodies. Wire. Burning. Ash. 

Before it was a fetus, the joke had wanted to be a poem. It used to watch the lyrics line up
between the toy boats in the still lake. It envied their decorum, the way their sails billowed
when the children blew.
 


Poem in Favor of Joy

I was happy 
to be empty 
a nude economy

oh, for you,
you alone,
I ended

my lifetime 
ban on 
men

let’s just 
say the DNA 
island ends
here
 


Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three books published by Hanging Loose Press, Freud in Brooklyn, Ugh UghOcean and Moraine. Her new book, Pageant, will be published by Alice James Books in November 2009. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Rutgers University and in public schools.
 

Juliet Cook


Domestic Disturbance

Douse tongue in scalding herbal tea. Breach.
Yellow onions un-paper themselves. I lob
a soft body into the stew pot.

Through watery eyes, this is such a little pretty
little nuthouse. Spin through the empty red
pistachio shells, black walnuts, candied pecans,

sugared almond slivers inserted underneath fingernails
until my knees buckle into a plié. Oh pantaloon-atic!
Oh washboard! Oh breastbone beneath which fungal

fruiting bodies breed. Into the stew pot, the butternut
squash twitching as if against an electric fence. The angry red
welts in my wrist. The bloodsuckers drained

my heirloom tomatoes. The husks in my drawers;
the crotch panel stained with a soupcon of beef broth.
Oh soupcon! I signed the contract! I signed on the dotted line

like cutting coupons, like julienned beets, like a wickerwork
basket of battered pointe shoes. A constellation of tiny blood stains
against pink sateen backdrop, but now I have bare feet.

Glass splinters into the stew pot, pantiliners into the stew pot,
antifungal cream, delousing powder, bleach.
Empty the stew pot into the laundry machine;

turn on the spin cycle. Sing a little pretty ditty
about a fruitcake with gangrene. Oh heaving bear claw!
Oh raw crescent roll! It’s bedroom time, my dearies.

My doll-hole is drilled to sweet dimensions.
My blow-hole is spouting cream. I’m a little teapot;
hear me scream. My hard-bodied manikin hovers above

my scene; such a tease before it crashes.
Torpedo torso splintering. Subdermal planting.
Fiberglass shards in my dumpling filling.


                                                     Spiracular


               Nobody in these parts will be grossed out if I get a little blubbery.

        That’s because I’ve lived inside a sperm whale for going on three weeks.
                Don’t ask me how I ended up here; it just kind of evolved,
                  but I don’t mean that spiritually. I’m not Jonah-like,
                                      Biblical, or even angelic.

                                  I’m more of a baked goods lover.
                                   A jelly donut was my roommate
                                    & last week we got hitched.
                      I wear her around my finger so she doesn’t float away.
                        She lets me jiggle my pinkie around in her jelly.
                    She lets me call her my little puff pastry with benefits.

                       Our wedding feast was course after course
                    of krill washed down with krill in silver goblets.
                                My wife has a very small mouth,
                 but she’ll drink a mini chocolate éclair under the table
                             & put most baby stingrays to shame.

                     We have no official drinking age inside the whale,
                   but we do have a canopy bed with waterproof sheets.
          Let’s just say they were stained with sweet, sticky streaks that night.
             Let’s just say we were so naughty the whale’s eyes bulged out.

                                 We don’t use the word blowhole
          when we talk dirty. We say things like spume of black raspberry
                       meets saltwater spew bejeweled with ambergris.
                                   Soon my wife will be out of jelly.

                                  We’re very gender fluid. After all,
                                a jelly donut is neither male nor female,
                                  even though I call it a she. As for me,
                   I’d like to call myself a shemale pomosexual, but I’d be lying
             if I said that shemale part didn’t come right out of a porno magazine.

 

 

Juliet Cook is the author of numerous quirky chapbooks, most recently including MONDO CRAMPO (coming soon from the dusie kollektiv 3) and PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR (coming soon from Spooky Girlfriend Press). Her first full-length poetry collection, ‘Horrific Confection’ was recently published by BlazeVOX.
 

YZ Chin

 

Accusing the Panda

The day after I was told
that I am lousy in bed,
I went to the zoo to accuse
the giant panda from China.

He refused to tell me the last time
he got any.
He didn’t answer when I asked
why the first of his kind allowed
himself to be brought
to America by a white
woman, carried
in her arms. Black
and white

bear,

ambassador of peace,
token of friendship,
a giant dumpling of kowtow
cuteness, a-
sexual.

I asked him why
he would not fuck the female
they had arranged for him.

I asked him if
he believed in love.

Panda looked at me,
eyes,
the bodies of crows partially covered
in slushy snow,
said:

“I am black and white, not
grey.”

Accusing the Humans

They have fed me Viagra.
They have shown me porn.
They have sat me down
in front of a live sex show,
where I witnessed
the panda man towering above the panda woman
all curled up,
face mashed into the concrete, rubbing,
forced or in ecstasy.

I watched everything take place behind bars,

bars that added black zebra stripes to my father’s body as my mother cuddled me, a pinkish baby, and pointed him out to me, for they met only once a year, for conjugal
visits, although we still had a zebra-striped view of him, from afar.

At forty days my eyes opened. At four years a message came to the panda
community, from both without and within. The world slowly tortured to death by
humans, and we pandas taking pains taking stands to stop all procreation, abstain
ourselves to extinction.

Message of the pandas told by my mama: first in words, then with her face mashed
and rubbing into concrete as I watched her, zebra-striped, other side.

Is there a young panda watching me
as I pound this rebellious panda woman?
Am I interestingly
zebra-striped or
just stripped of
all that is good?

This panda woman tried to be obedient
to the message,
howling at me to
remember my duty, the pandas’ stand,
but they have fed me Viagra,
and they have shown me porn,
and they have sat me down
in front of a live audience,
and all I want is to stop
listening to the panda message,
but I cannot reach my own ears
with my teeth, so instead I tear
at hers until she bleeds,
locking her in place with my black legs,
pawing her with my black arms,
digging into her white midsection with
my black talons, and

they do not stop me.
They like it.

 

 

Accusing the Bamboo

The panda sits behind bars, just sitting, legs spread wide, gnawing on a stick of
bamboo.

Bear Cat, but what’s in a name?

My mother named me Bamboo because she wanted me to be like the bamboo
bending with the wind but never breaking.

Mother, I have bent for you. You alienated me
because—

I have bent for you, mother, aunt, cousin,
and I have bent for you, peer, best friend, crush,
and now all I am is a stooped bow waiting
for an arrow that you know will never come
to release, taut but never broken, never able to break,
strong enough for you to close your eyes
and enjoy my music as I
convulse in the gale.

Friends, I have bent for you. You alienated me
because—

Mother, I have bent over for you. You should have used a bamboo cane
on me instead of
the rattan one that broke in half so soon,
that broke in half so soon
you could not use it on my brother, your son.

The bear cat gnaws the bamboo, and I can tell the zoo had cut it from the lake next
door by the crude pocket knife markings of teenage love carved
on the bamboo.  I too

Run
your fingers along my taut spine,
give it a flick and commend me,
commend me on my strength, for, mother, friends,
I have bent for you, I have done my yoga
like you told me to, and it is all
for my own good.



YZ Chin, formerly of Malaysia and Chicago, currently lives in New York City. Chin is an associate editor with Chicagoland-based RHINO.
 

Nin Andrews

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Reading for a Book Contest

Everyone knows it's not easy to fall in love. You can't just go out in the streets and shout, You.
You look like a nice guy. How about a turn in the sack? And expect he'll be just the right fit. A one-size-fits-all kind of guy. (There are so few out there. Have you noticed?) But that's exactly what I do. And so many things go wrong. How can I explain?

The first one I meet is one of those women who looks so nice. I think to myself, I've lucked out, and, so soon. Before I know it, she's taking me to her room, dimming the lights. I can almost taste her lips when she starts talking without pausing for breath. She talks all night. She wants to tell me everything about her life and act it out, too, showing off the many ghosts of her past. (Don't you hate a woman who talks in bed?) It's like sleeping in an aviary, her sweet voice filling my night.

The second is this guy who has never been laid. But just looking at him, I know one day he'll be great. (I'm always psychic about a man's future sex life.) He'll be a regular Napoleon in bed. (And it's not true what they said about Napoleon's penis, by the way.) But tonight this man is so eager, he hasn't even bothered to put his body on right. He has his hands in his eye sockets, his shoes on his ears, and a penis stuck to the back of his head. I want to shout look in the mirror for Christ's sake. But instead I admire his body parts. Oh yes, I want to say. Yes, yes, yes! But I don't.

The third is one of those real poets. You know the type. Even in bed I can picture him at the podium, manuscript and water glass in hand. He's the guy who thinks about having sex so much, he has theoretical sex. And there are just so many theories to consider. There's Hegelian sex with its theses, antitheses, syntheses. Pascalian sex: he had it once with a god, and it has never been the same since. Or Plato's sex. Of course Plato never had sex. But his shadow did.

It's only when I'm ready to give up that I notice the woman in the corner wearing a plain black dress. (Why do poets always where those little black gowns with pumps fishnetsm too?) She has such nice legs, I think. And soon I realize she's wearing nothing underneath. I’m opening her slowly, just hoping she feels as good on the inside as she looks on the surface. It's always such a wonderful relief to find a winner in end. To say please and ah and mmmmm. To breathe deep and relax at last.

 

Nin Andrews is the editor of a book of translations of the French poet Henri Michaux entitled Someone Wants to Steal My Name from Cleveland State University Press. She is also the author of several books including The Book of Orgasms, Why They Grow Wings and Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane. Her book, Sleeping with Houdini, was published by BOA Editions in 2007. Her chapbook, Dear Professor, Do You Live in a Vacuum, was also published in 2007 by Subito Press. Her next books, Southern Comfort, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press.

Scapegoat Review Spring 2009

The Spring Issue of Scapegoat Review celebrates
a wide variety of writers; some established and
well known while others are at the beginning
of promising careers. That is the beauty of
language and ideas—
bringing forth together all kinds
of thought, music and art. Spring is a
time of rebirth, discovery and joy.
Flowers bloom, winter days turn longer,
and animals rejoice.
Weather can turn at a
moment’s notice;
no warning, natural disasters
destructing all in their path.
Hurricanes, tornadoes and monsoons run
rampant in parts of the world due
to unstable climates. Scapegoat’s aim is
to juxtapose beauty with ugliness,
showing the world as it is
in the world of words.
I hope you enjoy this
issue as much as I do.

Erika

  field

Poetry  

Nin Andrews
Wings
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Reading for a Book Contest

YZ Chin
Accusing the Panda
Accusing the Humans

Accusing the Bamboo

Juliet Cook
Domestic Disturbance
Spiracular

Joanna Fuhrman
The Writer’s Life
The Joke

Poem in Favor of Joy

Mary-Catherine Jones
2-7-70


 

Sara Lefsyk
dearest figments,

June Coleman Magrab

Pop-Pop Sectioning Grapefruit and Doing Cantaloupe
                For my father, John Coleman 1902-1987
Because One Is A Member Of The Underprivileged


Joe Millar
Eg*OS

Kiely Sweatt

Dear, in fast response
to overly eager:

Martin Woodside

Commuter

Flash Fiction
Rusty Barnes
On Another Night In Paradise
  Non-Fiction
Karen Dietrich
Idle Hands