A Country Rag Occasional Treats
For five years, Jennifer Ley published CRAYON POWER, a hardcopy children's environmental magazine distributed nationally, which received much critical acclaim. Her unique insight, imagery and wit appears in verse throughout the Web's many high-tech, high-quality literary sites including Conspire, Agnieszka's Dowry where she designed & edited The Story of Ms. Hair, Pif and Recursive Angel.
When the rains come,
and come they do, drops
feeding rills, then torrents
what an ache builds in my breast
the song of 'you'
sullen with wanting
and blame
In the damp nights
I dream of apples
their crisp, clear taste
hoping to wake with one
perfect seed on my tongue
the genesis
for a new garden
sculpture: "Leda and the Swan" by Robert E. Kuhn
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Over two years ago, Jennifer Ley created a unique thematic poetry site, THE ASTROPHYSICIST'S TANGO PARTNER SPEAKS, to showcase poets of unusual vision. Last summer, Astro sponsored a live poetry reading, "Flesh Time," which brought together in Greenwich Village poets from as far away as Germany. The event, earning a critic's pick in "Time Out," is commemorated in a specially prepared print anthology. Jennifer Ley has created a number of chapbooks including, hardcopy, Riding the Meridian, Anthology of the Web and A Chapbook of Poems and, on-line, Ambient Alchemy. Print credits include Minotaur, Mobius, Perceptions & Salonika, and anthology appearances in Excursus, Gravity and The Poetry Calendar. Among her many creative activities, she has designed and is editor/moderator for PERIHELION, a new interactive WebDelSol publication. For more complete listings of her service in arts and environmental causes worldwide, visit Poetry Cafe's Anthology section.
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