Leslie McGrath
GLOBALIA
Global Wealth Inequality: an irony
The mirror shatters. The window it had covered shows every person inside what is outside—
Worms wriggle in a rain puddle. Smoke rises from the baker’s oven.
And every person outside what is inside—
Billionaires, cheeks pressed against the walls, with only enough space to jingle the change
in their deep pockets.
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Global Warming: a prediction
No worms because no rain puddle because no rain
No smoke because no fuel because no trees because no rain
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Global Politics: a warning
Threat threat threat threat
boom.
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Global Uncertainty: an answer
I am sure
of very
little. Is
this not
wisdom?
LESLIE MCGRATH (1957-2020) taught creative writing at Central Connecticut State University, and was a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her third poetry collection is Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives.
ISSUE FOUR features fiction by David Crouse, Susan Daitch, JoAnna Novak, and Ian Stansel; literary criticism by Rick Moody; film writing by J.M. Tyree; creative nonfiction by Michael Levan and Marco Wilkinson; film writing by J.M. Tyree; a David Remnick interview with John Ashbery; poetry by Natalie Eilbert, Kathy Fagan, Sarah Gridley, Philip Metres, Danielle Pafunda, Daniel Poppick, Zachary Schomburg, Sandra Simonds, Analicia Sotelo, and Catherine Wagner; and translations of Jorge Luis Borges and Ye Hui.