Night Music

From a quarter mile away,

the notes of the nearest neighbor’s bamboo

wind chime arrive from time to time.

Issue 13Robert WrigleyAugust 30, 2018poetry

Walt

Stephen DixonIdaho ReviewAugust 30, 20182006

May Altar Constructed from Memory

God lay down in the one cool spot

of the hall

the bell had emptied like a church.

Issue 13Debora GregerAugust 30, 2018poetry

Vulnerability

Stephen DixonIdaho ReviewAugust 30, 20182009

To a Cheap Replica of the Head of Michelangelo’s David

Into the birdbath’s frozen mirror,

you stare down a nose of red clay

as if—past mossy five o’clock-shadow,

your curls under snow—

you can’t see

someone just carved from marble,

and stupid with it

Issue 13Debora GregerAugust 30, 2018poetry

Goats

Rick BassIdaho ReviewAugust 30, 20182006

In the Warehouse of Old Dreams

There’s a tower of tomes that tried to get rich quick,

signed by the author, never read.

Issue 13Debora GregerAugust 30, 2018poetry

Tenderfoot

Edith PearlmanIdaho ReviewAugust 30, 20182011

The Weight

This weight on my chest,

this sullen sadness—tell me, Doctor,

how I can lift it up and set it down.

Issue 13Lawrence RaabAugust 30, 2018poetry

Switzerland

Susan PeraboIdaho ReviewAugust 30, 20182008

Souvenir

The things we saved we won’t

throw away now—old toys,

postcards and trinkets.

Issue 13Lawrence RaabAugust 30, 2018poetry

Just Fine

Alvin GreenbergIdaho ReviewAugust 30, 20182011

At About This Hour

Everyone except Julie was dancing badly,
and I was sitting there watching with Tom
who had a broken ankle for his excuse.

Issue 13Lawrence RaabAugust 30, 2018poetry

What is Mine

Elizabeth KaiserIdaho ReviewAugust 30, 20182011

For Molly

What is this snuffling through the foliage

that tears at my heart? Don’t wander

so far away, I hear myself saying.

But she never listened to me

if she didn’t want to.

Issue 13Lawrence RaabAugust 30, 2018poetry