Published in the summer, 2011 issue (#3) of the Inlandia Literary Journal, hot off the press. a wonderful, new online journal.
http://inlandiajournal.org/2011/08/12/ruth-nolan-3/
september isn’t
for ice cream
august cripples
the dogs
july sticks
to itself
june, a time
to lower blinds
we lived on
cool tile floors
four months
in a row last year
grocery shopping
at midnight,
sleeping
through the day
our love
boiled over
when the air
conditioner broke
down and the
frozen pizza thawed
you took my
car keys and
in slow-mo you
knocked over
three
orange
cones
then melted
into the road
The ILJ issue #3 has some excellent pieces this issue, including one by one of my favorite, Inland Empire-based prose writers, Kathleen Alcala, whose work also graced the pages of "Inlandia: A Literary Journey through southern California's Inland Empire," published in 2006. The issue also features a "spotlight focus, Inland Writers Workshop, downtown Riverside," which I've led since summer, 2008, for Dr. Harki Dhillon, who writes poetry & prose, and is a longtime member of the workshop. I'm happy to see cover art by my artist friend, Cindy Rinne & fiction from another of my workshop members, Juanita Mantz Rodriguez, who I believe also attends the Inlandia-Palm Springs workshop, as well. Enjoy!
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