Poetry

From Issue IV (2019)

Various Companions

by LAUREN CAMP

Along the dirt road, repeating rabbits,
a fingering of rain.
A west wind galvanizes. How again

the wind, the whole point. Each night, a cat hisses
his memorable remarks, couldn’t be clearer.

I have been trying to sit beneath
mountains with my common statements

and reasons. Instead texts come forward,
provoke and then vanish. Stay calm,

the therapists say. Even if
the person you love is preoccupied
with something missing.

Family Tree | BERIC HENDERSON
Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100 cm., 2018

Lauren Camp

Lauren Camp is the author of four books. Her poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, Slice, The Fourth River, Terrain.org, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. She received the Dorset Prize and the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award, and she has been a finalist for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award, the Lascaux Prize in Poetry, Best of the Net, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Find her on Twitter @poetlauren or at laurencamp.com.

Beric Henderson

Beric Henderson is an Australian artist with a background in art and science. He has exhibited consistently since 2003, including in international shows in Seoul (2006) and Venice (2019). Henderson has won art prizes, lectured on creativity, and published his art in magazines and books and on a record cover. His website is berichenderson.com.