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Attempts

Karen Neuberg

Attempts to be the cycle fail.
Attempts to be the storm fail.
Attempts to manage the amassed fail and topple instead.
Attempts to climb the topple fail.
Attempts to quiet the old song, the old saw, the unfettered fascination to succeed fail.

The failure attempts to be success. It succeeds.
Full of success, she know not how to be.

Karen Neuberg is the author of two chapbooks: Myself Taking Stage (Finishing Line Press) and Detailed Still (Poets Wear Prada). Recent poems appear in Fractal Literary Magazine, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Prong & Posy, and Serving House Journal. She’s associate editor of the on-line poetry journal First Literary Review-East and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Links to more of her work can be found at karenneuberg@blogspot.com

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ISSUE TEN: Satyrs Yell "Me!"

Charlotte Pocock
   Spring: 1943

Carrie Redway
    Dial Back the Operator

Jennifer Metsker
   Beta Waves Are Not A Part
     Of The Ocean And We Prefer The Ocean

Doug Paul Case
   A Real Thigmotropism

Katharine Diehl
   This is wisdom

Chris Campanioni
   Status Update

Kenneth Jakubas
   The Infield Rule

Karen Neuberg
   Attempts
   Memory Riding Herd on My Heart

Robert Hamilton
   Few Yachts Short of a Regatta

Jessica Goody
   The Selkie

Sandy Feinstein & Keysha Whitaker
   Slant