FOUR WAY REVIEW

An Electronic Literary Journal

Author: Rodney Terich Leonard

  • AND WE TRY TO FIND GESTURES FOR OUR HUMANITY WHEN WE’RE YOUNG by Rodney Terich Leonard

    AND WE TRY TO FIND GESTURES FOR OUR HUMANITY WHEN WE’RE YOUNG by Rodney Terich Leonard

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    Rodney Terich Leonard
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                   She’s behaving midnight again.Her bedroom blinds shut.The installation of quilted drapes.Scribbling J.T. repeatedly on notepads.This is when I grease her scalp.What a harvest—Mounds of envelopes on the nightstand.Before opioids were news.This is her green house—                Rot plowed from the root,what unravels…

  • TWO POEMS by Rodney Terich Leonard

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    Rodney Terich Leonard
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    ELEGY FOR SABENA           1969-2007                               eyes, loud-soft with crying and with smiles.                                         –Gwendolyn Brooks Sixty-months of a dreamed glare,           away from Manhattan and Columbus,                     avenues slick with year-round verse,                               way up in back of the Poconos. Much on which to muse,           much for the notebook,                     always some other someone                               wasn’t always easy. January was picturesque:           squirrels…