Welcome to the Spring 2008 issue of
The Wild Goose Poetry Review. Things
are heating up in the Carolinas and the
poetry we're receiving is getting hotter
as well.

This issue we have the pleasure of
featuring the work of Lyn Lifshin. We
hope you enjoy reading the issue as
much as we have enjoyed putting it
together.

We also hope you drop in on us next
issue as we have some changes in the
works--but, no hints!

Patricia Kennedy Bostian
and
Gary Walker, editors
The Wild Goose Poetry Review
Spring 2008 Volume 3 Issue 1
Carving Silence

Carving silence from the scrape
of chairs, staccato chatter, music
from speakers behind whirling
fans – like the silence
of the desert, coolness popping
from sand to soothe day
into night, Sawet Owls,
Cicada, memories of Trinity –
the silence of a forest full of frogs
and crickets and falling stars –
the silence of a mind distracted
from background radiation,
the motion of stars, the noise
of fallen trees, pine cones falling
into water, galaxies spiraling as ripples
into a space carved from silence.

Bradley Earle Hoge
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