Issue 11.1 Fall 2015

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About the Author

A.J. Huffman has published twelve solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  Her new poetry collections, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press), A Few Bullets Short of Hom (mgv2>publishing), Butchery of the Innocent (Scars Publications) and Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink) are now available from their respective publishers and amazon.com.  She has an additional poetry collection forthcoming:  A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press).  She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2400 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com.

 

Mt. Brain

 

A.J. Huffman

 

I climb at night,
closing my eyes like doors.
All dead
                bolts slamming
out the real.  I have
created my own universe
of thoughts flying like birds.  I watch
them with binoculars and periscopes,
in hope of capturing the rarest ones.
I am Columbus,
Magellan, de León.  Explorers,
conquering the indigenous wild.  I claim it
in my own name, wrap select pieces

to return as prizes to morning’s motherland

 

 

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