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A VIVID IMAGINATION
by John Grey
A child,
fearful of nighttime,
in the despairing fields
of lights out,
bedcovers up to the throat,
casts his nerve-end’s net unwillingly,
hauls in a vision
of devils and demons,
phantoms and zombies,
in fact, everything
but random strangers,
the kind that prowl
his neighborhood after dark.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US
resident, recently published in New World Writing, River and South
and The Alembic. Latest books, Bittersweet, Subject Matters,
and Between Two Fires, are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Paterson
Literary Review, White all Review, and Cantos.
KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic.
She’s played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket
weaving, and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified herbalist,
and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of calculus. Her creative efforts have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in
poetry, once for The Best of the Net in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for
poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers
Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the
Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had more than forty-five books published and has
served as an editor for several literary journals. Check out her latest short fiction collection, An Orbit of Chairs: https://www.amazon.com/Orbit-Chairs-KJ-Hannah-Greenberg/dp/B0CWMMM73T Within its pages are two tales originally published at Yellow Mama: "Alive Another Day" and
"Light Notes." Channie's new art book, Life's Colors, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGCTHJ6Z, just launched (hit "read
sample" button). It contains images originally published by Yellow Mama.
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