from east to west http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/directory en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:07:44 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/directory Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Ma Belle Mané ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3552/t/Ma-Belle-Man-.html image

For Marie-France... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3552 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:01:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Haberdashery ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3551/t/Haberdashery.html


The magician flips his hat
and pulls out
the white hare who baffled Alice,

the silk scarves
Elle or Svana wore
on the Paris runway.

But I want the hat
to become the illusionist
turning itself
into a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3551 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:41:40 GMT <![CDATA[ The Goddess Of Death Wishes Otherwise ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3550/t/The-Goddess-Of-Death-Wishes-Otherwise.html
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And so my season comes early, hills
all polished with its glaze, cauldron-pour
of heavy sleet. They gleam
like the skulls I will scour and stack
along the garden's landscape.

How many will die this year?
Even I don't know that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3550 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:35:52 GMT <![CDATA[ nice cover ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3549/t/nice-cover.html ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tasha1) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3549 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:51:40 GMT <![CDATA[ from east to west - fall 09 ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3548/t/from-east-to-west-fall-09.html Our fall issue includes featured poets, Melissa Crowe, Dave Morrison& Lynne Shapiro, featured artists, Brianna M. Allen, Jennifer Barnett-Hensel, Jeff Filipski, Audrey Hotchkiss & Donna Kuhn, and "spoken word" poets, http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3548 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:00:01 GMT <![CDATA[ A brilliant idea. ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3547/t/A-brilliant-idea-.html ---------POSTAGE---------

- You need some more stamps.
___________________________- Why?
I've already put on five.
- You see, your letter is too
Heavy. If you put on two
More…
________- It will be heavier.
But I can make it lighter.
I'll put off all the stamps I put
On at home. I'm sure it's good.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (iverhyck) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3547 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:06:57 GMT <![CDATA[ Schism ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3546/t/Schism.html Schism
(Said of him
after the departure.)
Morning's closure was a gate
your hands latched, suitcases they lifted
into the new convertible,
its canvas top
rolled back but ready to combat
rain and lightning flashed
along the sky, a raw nerve
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3546 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:43:13 GMT <![CDATA[ Some Bananas and A Glance Backwards ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3545/t/Some-Bananas-and-A-Glance-Backwards.html and they hung from a metal hook
with arched backs and freckled skin
invoking the savage
eeriness of a Soutine
painting,

not the benign
sensation you feel
when reflecting
on bananas,

the monkey slouched
under palm leaves peeling
their yellow rind

or brown women draped
in rain forest silk
who balance the bunched fruit
on their heads
with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3545 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:41:56 GMT <![CDATA[ The Woman Who Talked To Birds ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3544/t/The-Woman-Who-Talked-To-Birds.html Custody of the dog
was never an issue. She preferred
my husband and presented me
with a body turned water sprinkler
as she... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3544 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:40:22 GMT <![CDATA[ On Cape Ferret ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3543/t/On-Cape-Ferret.html (Southern Coast of France, Early September)

Tourists have vanished with Summer.
Only the ocean wind
walks the beach, her voice
a ferry that transports whispers
http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3543 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:37:48 GMT <![CDATA[ The Countryside Becomes Her ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3542/t/The-Countryside-Becomes-Her.html of prostitutes, from Athenian women
who draped their figures in slinky gauze
to courtesans of Vienna who sail
the streets in soft silk.

Yet, the country lifts this hue
to hedgerow birds who strike the leaves
with wings flickering
like matchstick flames
meant to catch someone's eye
and light the landscape with awe.

Meanwhile, the carriage house
offers its handsome view of this shade
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3542 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:34:03 GMT <![CDATA[ poet's lament ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3541/t/poet-s-lament.html
Nobody knows the secrets he told
Or the promises i made
To the lynx who freed my soul
From the snare that hunter laid.

I can tell 'bout the pain
Bout the bleeding misery
Of all that was sacrificed
When the wildcat set me free.

Some things are better left unsaid
Don't go naming the unknown
The trail you seek -... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (weareclouds) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3541 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:00:50 GMT <![CDATA[ Bananas And A Glance Backwards ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3540/t/Bananas-And-A-Glance-Backwards.html
Seven days
passed and they hung
from a metal hook
with arched backs and freckled skin
invoking the savage
eeriness of a Soutine
painting,
not the benign
sensation you feel
when reflecting
on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3540 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:38:59 GMT <![CDATA[ i love this... ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3539/t/i-love-this-.html feeds@yuku.com (Tasha1) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3539 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:42:04 GMT <![CDATA[ I've Been Meaning to Thank Everyone Here: ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3537/t/I-ve-Been-Meaning-to-Thank-Everyone-Here-.html It pushed me to finally see my work as "good," and to keep on truckin.'
Recently, I was in Rattle #31, ( http://www.rattle.com/purchase.htm )which was a huge accomplishment for me. I have also been published in approximately 20 or so other magazines and have put out 3 books (two poetry and one flash fiction).

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (mouthtomine) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3537 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:58:37 GMT <![CDATA[ What We Left Behind ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3536/t/What-We-Left-Behind.html to stop from crying. They were your socks,
size extra large. When you found me, you
put your hand out as if you needed a handshake
or I was a woman drifting off down a river.

It was a child, size of a strawberry and purple-black,
that I expelled into the toilet. Each arm or
part of a leg was a love note or moon clawing
at the white. "Every time you hiccup, your heart

stops," you... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (mouthtomine) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3536 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:43:36 GMT <![CDATA[ The Dove ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3535/t/The-Dove.html When the room is veiled
by afternoon's light
and age seems to fade
from its wood and silver,

she returns --- occasionally
remembering she has been
the wife and partner
of a great man.

Fingernails peck
at the drapery cord
while eyes land
on feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3535 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:15:13 GMT <![CDATA[ Stance ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3534/t/Stance.html
September's rain has left you standing
cool and graceful on the iron stairs.
They have become your balcony,
your place above the city streets
and her people who don't see
how a brown body stems upward
in a white dress, how it leans
long and striking into a mind
that flowers beneath the dusk
of soft hair and wall-side shadows.

Tonight, you silence the street lamps,
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3534 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:53:24 GMT <![CDATA[ Ghanaian ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3533/t/Ghanaian.html The women meet on a roof top
where the hotel has a cafe
catering to tourists and a humid breeze.
Three Americans hug Niuma
a Gold Coast girl
who shares their race, light clothing
and ancestors who were enslaved
in different ways.
After some wine, the watch bell
prounouncing it's late, they leave
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3533 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:25:17 GMT