Wire

Before Houdini diced with death and lost
the final bet which burst his perineum
he stretched a wire from end to end of Pest
above the childhood ghetto in his mind,

These are the opening lines of "Wire," one of five poems by my friend Padraig Rooney that are in the current issue (June 2008) of the Concelebratory Shoehorn Review. Check them out! (And the rest of the issue as well.)

Concelebratory Shoehorn Review

Issue 16 of the on-line journal Concelebratory Shoehorn Review contains four of my poems: "Campfire," "Mandolin," "Romance," and "Those Who Wake at Night."

I have not had a chance to look at the rest of the poems in the issue yet, so I cannot recommend any of them in particular, but the photographs by Yuliya Shevchenko are worth a look, and there are lots of other artworks, poems, and articles to check out at your leisure.