My earliest memory is of a train station, semi-open arched frosted glass ceilings merged, with birds on a concrete island separating a pair of train tracks…
From “The Devolution of Birds” by Zach Smith
Contributors: Steven Ablon, Ivan Faute, Tara Roeder, A.J. Huffman, Rose Knapp, Nichole L. Reber, Zach Smith, Andrew Weatherly
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Forbidden Vegetables
The imagery was ripe and luscious.
Such beautiful imagery in “Forbiden Vegetables”… “flesh baked into red sauce…” I love it.
Andrew Weatherly’s Forbidden Vegetables: I love this poet’s line, “The French, knowing how to gussy up, naming it aubergine, making mysterious that purple skin…”
It’s both funny and elegant…and obviously true.
Forbidden Vegetables… kudos to Andrew Weatherly for this playful, evocative and deeply engaging mindscape.
Forbidden Vegetables by Anthony Weatherly…delicious!
Yummmm Andrew Weatherly write in descriptive pros. always intriguing always draws you in draws you close, right there with the experience. Forbidden vegetables calls me to get the forbidden veggie!
My favorite line from Forbidden Vegetables: “…milky flesh hidden inside a purple veil/ inside a lumpy name…”
Forbidden Vegetables was a great combo of imagery and humor!
Checking to see when THREE WOMEN will be published. Which issue? Thanks/- Lisa