RUNES, A Review of Poetry, HEARTH
Winter Solstice 2006, ISBN 0-9725384-6-1

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. Hearth issue contains poems by Mary Jo Bang, Mark Doty, Annie Finch, Alice Friman, Barbara Hamby, W.S. Merwin, Alberto Rios, Gary Short, David St. John, & Lynne Thompson.
Editors: CB Follett and Susan Terris

Email: RunesRev@aol.com


 … high esteem with which we hold the literary magazines like RUNES in which the best poems of today are to be found.
–David Lehman The Best American Poetry

This latest volume of Runes upholds the high quality standards evidenced by previous, award-winning volumes, and is enthusiastically recommended for poetry lovers everywhere.
–Reviewer's Bookwatch,  March, 2007  by Willis M. Buhle 

DULCY BRAINARD

Uncalled

It’s not as if the mockingbird
sings 39 songs out of indecision.
Nor that the cove fills twice each day
then empties to pearl mud
because it can’t choose
whether to be land or water.

I am the dog barking
on both sides of the glass door.

The tide follows the moon’s rules;
the bird’s repertoire is as determined
as its white wing-patches. Even
the desires of the dog
for both sticks and hearth fall
within its nature.

Every day at the glass door
one side and the other.