Volume 7
From California to Cuba, and from the far Northwest corner of Montana to New Brunswick, Canada, this volume delivers potent prose, trenchant poetry, and evocative art from writers and artists of all ages and backgrounds. Experience Stephanie Dickinson’s explosive story of violence and grief, the boyhood recollections of Blair Fuller, and cover artist Noreen Rei Fukumori’s succulent pairing of fruit and reconciliation.
Backyard Fruit
Just before the winter solstice, my brother, sister, and I let go of the simple wood-framed house we had called home for forty years. It took a year to empty the house of its furniture and layers of accumulated memories.
The Prudent Man
The indefatigable Cesar Hernandez is to the Cabinet Mountains and the rest of northwest Montana the shining spirit, the one link in a greater chain. Slender, wiry, alternately mercurial and thoughtful, Hernandez, a native of Puerto Rico, grew up in Brooklyn and moved to the secluded
Cabinet-Yaak country almost forty years ago.
I swim in Tomales Bay
—salt water cold
as grape popsicles—
this is not a metaphor, just
how it is.
Old juniper, old artificer, blue berries,
gin and July, you’ve done this walk
once, twice, or a thousand times, now
Contributors
Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.
- FRONT COVER
- Noreen Rei Fukumori Fuyu Kaki
- BACK COVER
- Julia Edith Rigby Tomales Calf
- PROSE
- Blair Fuller Grand Central Station
- J. C. Stock Bird Standing on Water
- Rick Lyttle Unorganized Sports
- Vicki DeArmon A Mother’s No
- Stephanie E. Dickinson Emily and the Dynamite
- Alvin Duskin The Red Arrow
- Elaine Elinson Bringing the Grape Boycott to England
- Rick Bass The Prudent Man
- Molly Katzman When It Stops Raining We Sleep Beneath the Stars
- Rosaleen Bertolino The Burned Hill
- G. David Miller Our Family Farm
- Claire Peaslee Colophon
- POETRY
- Jody Farrell Ode to the First Blackberry of Summer
- Keith Ekiss Miss Maria’s New Dress
- Pamela Manché Pearce Ocean View, Hotel Nacional de Cuba
- Anuja Mendiratta Brasil Vignettes
- Roy Mash Revolving Sunglass Display
- Hiroki Coyle The Treasure
- Gerardo Loza Where I’m From
- Heather Quinn Mindspill: a Paradelle
- Agnes Wolohan von Burkleo Now I Am an Old Woman
- Dave Seter Mission Blues
- Gina Cloud night poem
- Dale Pendell Sunset
- Larry Ruth South Fork of the Kings River
- Cathryn Shea The Chill of Grace
- Claire Blotter California Wild Flower Tonic
- Anna Gold “Will You Miss This?”
- Mary Winegarden Untitled
- ART + ARTIFACT
- Ashley Teodoro Seal
- Adam Shemper On the Day of Our Engagement, Motel Inverness Boardwalk, Tomales Bay
- Jenifer Kent Wave and Transit
- Mariana Smith The Seed of an Idea
- Nancy Stein Wave 43
- Rebecca Czapnik So Little, So Much
- Brooke Holve mtlaugwalkcut_5
- Sophia Dixon Dillo Appearance I and Appearance III
- Noreen Rei Fukumori Backyard Fruit
- Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman Marine Study, Chimney Rock
- Topaze “t.c.” Moore Bestiary #1 and Quagga Stallion and Foal
- Sherri Paul The Treasure Hunter
- Patricia Thomas Fog
- Anne Faught URSA
- Julia Edith Rigby Tomales Calf
- Jacqueline Mallegni Haiku
- Vincent Dion Untitled #37
- Sage Rossman Two Trees
- Shirley Salzman Periodic Art of the Elements
- Theodora Varnay Jones CP-X
- Susan Putnam Untitled #244
- Eileen Puppo Seasonal Shock
- Wendy Schwartz Rich Readimix
- Bob Kubik Morning Coffee
- Adah Pinchuk Hyman Estero in Blue and Tomales Bay, Low Tide
- Kathleen Goodwin Homage to the Half Tree
- Andrew Thompson Warning: Bees
- Charles Eckart View from the Bicycle
- Caitlin McCaffrey Domed Nest with Pantry Chambers
- Catherine J. Richardson Caspian
- D. L. Woerner Joan’s Falcon
- Lisa Piazza Leaf #3
- Lorraine Almeida Growth in the Desert
- Isis Hockenos We, the Milked III
- Jon Langdon Asters in Starlight
- Thomas D. Joseph Tennessee Valley Beach
- Mark Ropers Point Lobos