March 2010 — The Marionette

Poetry

• Daughter by Miguel Lopez de Leon

  An exhausted, porcelain doll
  He would heal her from the experiences of orphan life

• My Own Ending by Michael Fosburg

  But the unmade future
  imposed itself,

• Words of the Unprofound by Joseph M. Gant

  If you’d have said it outright yesterday,
  even I would have listened to you.

• The Note Found on the Person of the Dead Wizard Skewered From Above by Alexandra Seidel

  So it is, my dearest colleague, that I write
  to inform you that I am your superior in our craft.

• The Marionette by Jason L. Huskey

  Let the slow twitch of neck
  sob away your wooden heart.

• Newport Memorial by Jason L. Huskey

  Her black hair had been cropped close,
  cobalt eyes and pale lips
  that trembled in the transparency.

• Second Chance by James Dorr

  graveyards silent in the night

• Goddess in Training by William C. Burns, Jr.

  She finds all manner of glass jars
  with wonderfully articulated graphic characters
  filled with the most exotic … things