New work by LEAH FLAX BARBER, ROBERT CORDING, PETER FILKINS

Table of Contents:

• Robert Cording, “In Beaufort”
• Leah Flax Barber, “School Poem” and “Cordelia’s No”
• Peter Filkins, “Trains”

In Beaufort
By Robert Cording

At a rented air B&B, I am sitting on a swing
placed here just for me it seems,
or just to carry off my worries and sorrows
as I rock slowly, back and forth, taking in
the shifting colors of the Broad River that circles
this marsh pocketed with cut-outs of water
and long inlets that circle round and round
as if it were one of those spiritual labyrinths
that bring calm as the center is reached.