Volume 5
A splendid sampler of exceptional prose, poetry, and art! In this issue, actor, author, and activist Peter Coyote offers a revealing memoir about his father and his father’s father, alongside Tim Foley’s contemplations on San Quentin Prison, an autograph musical manuscript by composer Burt Bacharach, poetry by Linda Pastan and Howard Norman, and compelling art by Randall Gray Fleming and Wendy Schwartz.
Fathers
My father, Morris, was only five feet nine inches—a giant to a child—but his nineteen-inch neck and fifty-four-inch chest made him imposing to adults as well, and men marked his presence. He was handsome, with a virile, charismatic manner; a witty man capable of immense charm and extravagant generosity.
Living with a Ghost
If the object
is for things to grow
the deadwood must be first to go
then the center
tangled tight
opened wide
to
air and light.
The compulsive surge
of surf against rock, surf
against rock—
white shoulders of water
shattering to fragments,
reassembling
for another run.
Contributors
Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.
- Cover
- Jasmine Bravo Sister’s Keychain
- Prose
- Peter Coyote Fathers
- Susan Trott Plain Jain
- Judy Brackett Chicken Crossings
- Lynn Hoggatt Madame Alvida Turns a Card
- Florence Caplow Elders
- Frances Lefkowitz Flash Fiction in Two Parts
- Tim Foley Machinery, Waiting
- Ellen Shehadeh Shortcake for Breakfast
- Chris Reding The Summer Palace Vase
- Muriel Murch Morning Rounds
- Joan Thornton Maxine
- Claire Peaslee The Sand Swimmer
- Carla Steinberg Snapshots
- G. David Miller Conversations with a Righteous Man
- Poetry
- Gina Cloud January
- Laura Juliet Wood Composting
- Ryan Connolly Marsh Hawk
- Olivia Fisher-Smith My Wings
- Howard Norman Novel Made of Haiku
- Margaret Stawowy Vagrant
- Carolyn Losee First Miwok Poem
- Meredith Sabini Fallen from Grace
- Judith Shaw Poem
- Dean Rader Notes on Inequality
- Helen Wickes Day After Easter
- Linda Pastan Peace Process
- ART + ARTIFACT
- Eileen Puppo El Patrón
- Bob Kubik Point Reyes Station
- Zea Morvitz Crossed Trunks and Inverness Drawing #4
- T. C. Moore …in a smooth and flowing manner #5 and #4
- Terry Murphy Farrier
- Celt Carr Self-Reflective Portrait
- Channon Miles Self-Reflective Portrait
- Blaize Adler-Ivanbrook Self-Reflective Portrait
- Jennifer Gutierrez Self-Reflective Portrait
- Grady Salas Hecht Invisible World
- Clare Elsaesser Flower Child
- Emmeline Craig Laundry in the wind with green hills
- Burt Bacharach, Steven Sater Living with a Ghost
- Anna Dal Pino Investigation of a Raven Investigating Me
- Kerry Livingston Blackbirds over the Wetlands and Singing by Firelight
- Claudia Stevens Traditional Botanical Paintings
- Britta Kathmeyer Gossip
- Sarah Myers Polka Dot Pathogen
- Claudia Chapline New American Garden Book
- Barbara Vos Spring Fed
- Ryan Dunbar Simple Complexity
- Carolyn Krieg Red Deer
- Timothy W. Graveson Farm Book
- Susan Putnam Untitled #216
- Randall Gray Fleming Winter 1
- Elizabeth Hansen Green River
- Debbie Patrick Are We There Yet?
- Rebecca Young Winslow Butterfly Collage
- Celeste Woo Nudibranchs
- Chelsea Buteux Breach in the Pacific and Oncorhynchus kisutch (Coho)
- Mary Siedman Arroyo Hondo
- Wendy Schwartz Conversation
- Mark Ropers Limantour Scoters