Issue#1: Oct. - Dec. 2002

What makes the frying pan apart
from heavy things?
To someone conceived of the fever
of novena and heated offering-learn to read
which burdens are dragged.


Certain is there like birthright, a sense
written-as common
birds, burns of science are-
of how different the freest
of shapes are carried correctly.


By index by instinct, the eye first
before any lifting, sacrificing must find
the answers to her scalding riddle:
you handle life's endless
figures, hands clasped.


The first response is: to bind
-as in a native sweet-
roundness means to imagine
with a cord, four corners that in securing,
warm home and prayer.


A frying pan, handled, of course
is familiar in its cycle of being
a medium-
like the sign of the cross-and need
not for its name to be listed.