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Rosemarie Rowley


Ophelia

If she were freighted in gold, in a splendid barque
In which to log her passion and her pledge,
If she could see beyond the windless dark
Of her lover's despair, and not go past the edge
Of fruitful discourse, if she had met
His pleas with rendered accounts of joy
He would be hers, her own: not yet
Remembered as a timid, rancorous boy--
A quest for others, his father's ghost to trace
In the covert coven of the mind, a past
To mitigate the murder and disgrace
And leave him to simplicity; his last
Breath to Horatio--"there are other worlds than this
How costly they are, yet purchased with a kiss."



Perdita

Banished because of a testy father's rage,
Your life is precious to your faithful mother.
Your presence scarcely registered on the page:
Yet you and she would never find each other.
You would be there as mere ephemera,
Your absence signifying patriarchal guilt
On the imagined coastline of Bohemia,
Where nature flourishes, and nothing gilt.
Yet only art can rescue the act of stealth
By which you became exile, like a tree
Turned from a god's pursuit of beauty's wealth,
As Daphne was chastened, to memory.
So you are here, the king in the last round
Vanquished--where you, once lost, are finally found.

































AUTHOR BIO

Rosemarie Rowley has degrees in Irish and English Literature, and philosophy from Trinity College Dublin, an M.Litt on the nature poet Patrick Kavanagh, and a diploma in psychology from NUI. She has written extensively in form: Flight into Reality (1989) is the longest original work in terza rima in English, reprinted in 2010 and now available on CD. She has four times won the Epic award in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition. Her books in print are The Sea of Affliction (1987, one of the first works in ecofeminism, reprinted 2010), and Hot Cinquefoil Star (2002). Her most recent book is In Memory of Her.

POETRY CONTRIBUTORS

Liz Ahl
Shaune Bornholdt
Rebecca Guess Cantor
Joanna Cattonar
Claudia Gary
Carrie Jerrell (Featured Poet)
Ann Kolakowski
Jenna Le
Diane Lockward
Barbara Loots
Kathleen McClung
Susan McLean
Angela O'Donnell
Jessica Piazza
Rosemarie Rowley
Maxine Silverman
Katherine Smith
Linda Stern
Karrie Waarala
Marly Youmans

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FEATURED ARTIST
Author Erica Jong
Marion Ettlinger: I was raised in Queens, New York, the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants. I was educated at The High School of Music & Art and The Cooper Union, both in Manhattan. Shortly after graduation, I moved to Northern Vermont, where I lived for seventeen years. Although I have been practicing portraiture since the Sixties, it was in the early Eighties that I found my true vocation in photographing poets and writers, who as subjects remain compelling and irresistible to me still. Using only natural light and black and white film, I continue this work based in Manhattan.
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