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A Tuneful Volcanic Arc and a Quiet Sylvanshine

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A Tuneful Volcanic Arc and a Quiet Sylvanshine

whitening the water 
till everything began to glow 
a scattering of pearls 
and pieces of beauty 
crunching between molars 
studded on the table of their broken dreams 
and voice of utter solitude 
flashed from the reddened teeth of their dying home
where every jot and tittle of pain 
has turned into sorrow and wrath 
as the last gusts of sinking air 
drifted through the hole-punched 
painkiller pill mill 
sifting, hand-milled 
scarlet dust over the ravine of the 
wild crystal stair 

David M. Alper’s latest collection of poems, Hush, is scheduled for publication next year. His work has appeared in Oxford Magazine, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, Unbound Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He is an educator in New York City.

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Gerburg Garmann is a professor of French and German at the University of Indianapolis. She is also a poet and a painter. Her work has been featured in literary journals and art magazines around the world.

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