Switched on Gutenberg: Volume 6 Issue No. 1

Switched-on Gutenberg Vol. 6, No. 1


Cinquain Of The Chairs Tonight the chairs are gone from the grassy knoll, and no one sits where we sat long years talking unseen turning slowly toward the other’s face toward her vacancy, her sad -ness there fingers fluttered birds were hard berries her words were when she turned toward the other dreaming beside her there in the evening humid with dusk and just before the dark pulls down desire


Poem, Copyright 2001, Julie Cooper-Fratrik	Chairs. Image Copyright 2001, Nura Petrov

Julie Cooper-Fratrik has recent or forthcoming work in The Styles, Chachalaca Review, So To Speak and The Leap Years: Women Reflect on Change, Loss and Love. A cinquain is a 5 line stanza form generally with a set number of syllables to each line (2-4-6-8-2).	Nura Petrov (www.conceptualist.com) is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she majored in sculpture, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied art history, archaeology and anthropology. She lives in rural south- eastern Pennsylvania. The old barn, her studio, is overflowing with outrageous poetic investigations made of sticks and string, stones and branches wrapped in cloth, tied and untied.