FRANK WILLIAM FINNEYis a New England poet whose work has appeared widely in small press journals and anthologies including Hedge Apple, Poor Yorick: The Poet’s Mask, Tofu Ink Arts Press and Workers Write! He is a former lecturer in literature at Thammasat University in Thailand where he taught for twenty-five years. His collection The Folding of the Wings is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
One theme that leaps out in Issue 112 is vision, both in the literal sense of sight and in the deeper sense of perception and an artist’s imagination. There are people gazing inward and peering outward, people regarding the traumas of the past and the possibilities of the future without blinking, people looking in the wrong places and seeing too much or not enough.
With this in mind, we invite you to ogle at the wonders on display. But watch out, because some of them might be staring back at you with their smokey violet eyes.
Freckled scars are imprints of dears or deer— exit wounds over my body: abstract art, spatters of color patterned like lace and the feeling of raised grapefruit-colored kisses —and just as tart. I run my fingertips over the stitched pieces held together by hasty needlework— a framed magic-eye needlepoint; home decorations that greet friends’ fingers with welcoming artwork that they can touch.
JANE-REBECCA CANNARELLA is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Jane-Rebecca is the author of Better Bones and Marrow, both published by Thirty West Publishing House, The Guessing Game published by BA Press, and Thirst and Frost forthcoming from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.
