Hey, I got my first Carve

One of my lit mag subscriptions for 2005 is CARVE, edited by Aaron Tieger. I received Issue 4 in yesterday's mail.



Here's a fab poem from the issue by Tony Robinson:



Tuesday Without Warning



Let's darling fall down the flue,

fire in the back chute magic markers

in the vimmed vixen's hair. O what I want to do.

Here is where you aren't birdless stingy

thing there is merely points on paper--

distance of such-such that-there: mili-

somethings. Don't write: try, or beg,

or ask don't leave the hutch unlatched.

Rabbits & their ilk prefer the proffered

mix of mesclun endive greens & blues.

Forsooth, Madam, 'tis true. Verily, ah

verdantly, we walk in scenes of aqua,

we threw our shoes in the lake...can't be!

Considerations cluster & become

fiscal. How much $$$ how come? When

you come I swear I can feel it over

here I swear I just gave birth I swear

it's bigger than air & all that's in-

between. Giving up giving in. Giving

the glove back to the brandysnatch

giving the girdle over to Bercilak

your skintone is frosty your musty is sexy

& fie! I guess. I fall into your rain.





Smack! The issue also includes Gina Myers, an interview with the ubiquitous Daniel Bouchard, plus poems by John Mulrooney, Mairead Byrne, Aaron Kunin, and Jane Sprague.



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