Featured Poet: David Kowalczyk

“David Kowalczyk lives and writes in Oakfield, New York. His poetry has appeared in five anthologies and over seventy magazines, including California Quarterly, Maryland Review, and St. Ann's Review. He has taught English in Changwon, South Korea, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as well as at several American colleges, including Arizona State. David is fond of, in no particular order: Thai food, Canadian ales, Maggie Mae Ryan, foggy mornings, and the geese that fly over his house in late autumn.”

Prestidigitation The epitome of this.

The antithesis of that.

Both mother and father

of the wind,

it is usually preceded

by silent laughter, and

has a great affinity for

morally bankrupt leprechauns.

Loves to play Hungarian

rhapsodies upon its violin.

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Poems in and of Themselves

abbatoir angst avuncular badinage

brouhaha callipygian charivari clandestine

cyesis doyenne effervescent endemic

gargoyle hegira insatiable keen

maculation nimbus opprobrious ordure

pedicular pedologist perambulate persiflage

puissant putrid quoin schmozzle schnorrer

sesquepedian shibboleth simulacrum subversive

sumptuous sunicular suskin tectonic

tinctuous traduce trepidation vagary

venal woof zeugma