Destiny News
for Bob Fox (1943-2005)
When someone knocks
on your cranium in a dream
you should open your eyes
and pay them attention.
Like taking a forkful
of a moist slice
of coconut cake after
the server at Denny’s
plops it wobbly on the table.
So, hello again, Bob,
your moustache dense like
a warm bowl of morning
oatmeal and your breath
burned into the skin
of your CDs. The idea
of your leaving
still tucked away
in my glove box,
the helium
in your tutelage
made us all rise.
You were no
Yiddish journalist but
Meigs County cropper who
detested the stuffiness
of gentleman farmer
and shaped subway
fables even past
the ninth inning.
Now it’s elsewhere
stirred by a mystic
dream board—
so hello, middle-
of-the-night visitor.
You’re still strongly
in deed, fresh
as the news, traveler
on destiny’s meridian.
Rikki Santer’s work has appeared in various publications including Ms. Magazine, Poetry East, Slab, Slipstream, [PANK], Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, Grimm, Hotel Amerika and The Main Street Rag. Her work has received many honors including six Pushcart and three Ohioana book award nominations as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her tenth collection, How to Board a Moving Ship, has just been released by Lily Poetry Review Books.
Stephanie Liebetrau lives and works in Port Elizabeth/ Gqeberha. She completed a Diploma in Graphic Design at Cape Technikon. Her evocative oil paintings & collages fuse South African women with natural elements to create hybrids that diffuse the boundary between the real and recreated. She explores themes such as Eco-Feminism and remains fascinated by the “fragile hieroglyphics” in nature’s design. Her work is often ekphrastic, inspired by poetry, scripture and sacred texts.