RUNIC sign for Connection

RUNES, A Review of Poetry, CONNECTION
Winter Solstice 2007, ISBN TBA 
ISBN TBA


RUNES, A Review of Poetry is an annual poetry journal, 186 page, professionally printed, perfect bound journal, digest-sized, full color cover, on high quality paper with some artwork. Each issue of RUNES has a different theme. The Connection issue contains poems by Peter Cooley, Shirley Kaufman, Gary Short, Arthur Sze, David St. John, Lynne Thompson, Liliana Ursu, and Eleanor Wilner.
Editors: CB Follett and Susan Terris

Email: RunesRev@aol.com


"I received my copy of RUNES, and with no time to do so, sat down in spite of myself because the magazine was so compelling. I just love it. The sequential arrangement is exquisite, and the voices all utterly individual. I wasn't bored for a minute, which is the height of my praise-o-meter for literary magazines." 
– Molly Peacock

GARY SHORT

Ocean

From a dream you murmur, I am an ocean.
This would explain why
you taste like salt. This would explain
the nightly rise and fall of your breath,
the difficulty in pulling away
from you. The sway of the moon
along your body. Small wonder,
I want to hold you
so close, so deep.
Wake me waves.
To the south of your mouth I lie shipwrecked.
Gentlest light come down like moonglow.
My meditation. My 3 a.m.
Dear mystery, dear blue,
I’ll wait for you
on any shore your waves might break.